Question for British list members/PS for Goddlefrood

[Mike]

> Carol responds:
> <snip>
> 
> In the U.S., they enter kindergarten (half-days of school) at age 
> five and first grade at age six. 

Mike:
The Charter school I worked for runs things a little differently. 
They call Kindergarten through 2nd grade their "Primary School" 
kids and they all (Kindergarten too) have shortened but full school 
days. They get out at 3:15 pm at this school.

Grades 3 through 5 were called "Elementary School" and Grades 6, 7, 
and 8 were called the "Junior Academy". That's as high as the school 
went. All of these grades got out at 4:00 pm at this school.

Obviously, Junior Academy corresponds to what is now called "Middle 
School" in most public school systems nowadays. In my day, we called 
it Junior High and it was made up of 7th, 8th, & 9th graders. We 
didn't go to High School until the 10th grade. But I know other 
school systems even in our day had 9th graders in High School.

I lived in Michigan and "in my day" means the beginning of the 70s, I 
graduated in '74. I'm curious, for anybody else around my timeframe 
but in different states, when did you start High School?



> Carol:
> ACTs (I've forgotten what it stands for--academic something-or-
> other tests, probably) 

Mike:
American College Testing. It might have gone by a different name in 
our day, Carol.