From: aaron@loki (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: schools re: Old Coots Test
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 04:36:40 GMT

L. Saiki (saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu) wrote:
: All of the schools here go from K-6, and most schools follow the 7-8 as 
: intermediate, and 9-12 as high school.  There were some that had 7-9 as
: interm. and 10 - 12 as hs.  One of my favorite but late teachers had
: always said to our Freshman [9th grade] HIstory class, that "9th graders
: are not human." Grinning when he said that, and would add, "that is why
: some schools don't allow them into high schools" and start them from
: 10th grade.

"I just find it strange and pointless to have a school dedicated to teaching
only two grades.  Isn't that a waste?"

: He also said the level of maturity is so different between noisy ninth
: graders and tenth graders.  I do agree with him, although I think 
: kids from the 6th grade to 12th grade are not human but some abomination; 
: god's wrath or the devil playing some cruel joke on teachers.  

Alfvaen makes the secret elven gesture of wagging his finger at Spacey.  "Now,
now, don't overgeneralize.  I was certainly showing signs of improvement by
about 10th grade, and by 12th grade most of my classmates were decent human
beings.  This wasn't in a big city, though."

: I am not sure if it is different here, but everyone labels high 
: school kids by their rank.  I suppose it depends on who you talk to.  
: My cousin was in high school when I was in elementary school, so I 
: heard the hs ranking early.

"I repeat, I've never heard it here for high school, and rarely for university.
And on that note--why exactly do the four years have the ranks they do?
Freshman for 1st year I can understand, but why sophomore for 2nd year?  And
why junior and senior for 3rd and 4th?  It sounds like the last two years are
considered a unit, that way?  Anyone knowledgeable?"

: >---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
: >"And when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me."
: >   ---This Mortal Coil
: 
: Spacey buys Alfvaen a drink, handing it to him.  He looks at her
: questionably.  Spacey responds, "This Mortal Coil...Filligree and
: Shadow was my favorite record when I was a Junior in high school."

"I first encountered Filigree & Shadow in Grade 12 when I was working in an
art gallery in Grande Prairie.  It was one of the tapes that was considered
suitable for playing, at low volume, over the sound system--I don't know why,
offhand, but I guess it was considered sufficiently 'ambient'.  I made myself
a copy there, which I still have.  (Even if my brother lost the tape sleeve for
the second half of it, so I don't have the titles anymore for anything after
'Fire Brothers'...)  I also love 'It'll End In Tears', and one of these days
I'll have to look up some of the bands This Mortal Coil is made up of--the
only one I have anything by is Modern English.  Well, I got a Cocteau Twins
record from the library, and I have the song 'Aikea Guinea' on tape somewhere,
as I recall..."

: Grinning nostalgically she is reminiscing back to the days she skipped 
: school to go out to really nice restaurants, that have since disappeared, 
: with her friends.

"Your friends disappeared with restaurants?  How peculiar.  ;-}

"And for myself, I >never< skipped school.  It was too much fun.  Besides, I
had a friend who lived across the alley from my high school, who had a
computer and more wargames and RPGs than you could shake a stick at, though
mostly the latter.  The same guy who gave me SimEarth.  So I would just go
over there after school, at lunch, during spares, etc., but never skip.  I
did >not< want to get caught doing anything bad."

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"And when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me."
   ---This Mortal Coil
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