Question for British list members/PS for Goddlefrood

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Mary Ann Jennings
<macloudt at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol, Geoff is has already given lots of great info, but, if it
helps, I was working in a Year 5 (9 and 10 year olds) a few weeks ago
and the Twin Towers came up in class discussion.  All the kids used
the term 9/11.  This term is also frequently used on the BBC news,
which IMO is the ultimate proof that it's in common use in the UK.
> 
> Mary Ann, skiving from finishing her final paper (again)
>
Carol responds:

Thanks very much. But do the children know that it means September 11,
not November 9?

Carol, noting that in the U.S., fifth grade (which I assume
corresponds with Year 5) is comprised mostly of ten- and
eleven-year-olds (they'd be ten at the beginning of the year but most
will have turned eleven by this point in the school year)