CHAT: school

> From:    Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
> Subject: Re: CHAT: Maths schooling.
>
> And what's this middle school? Just as I thought I halfway understood
> the US system, you lot go and change it. I googled a bit ---- in some
> places it just looks like a new name for junior high, grades 7-8 or
> so, at other schools it includes grades 5-8 or 6-9.
I don't think any of them are really 'official' labels, but from what I
understand 'junior high' is 7-8 (sometimes with 6), 'high' is the four years
after that (not usually numbered), 'middle' 5-6 (sometimes including junior
high), and 'elementary' everything below that.

But then, I went to an elementary school that was K-8, so it doesn't mean
much.

> From:    Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
> Subject: Re: CHAT: Maths schooling.
>
> Are all middle school teachers in the US really BA's or BSc's in their
> subjects? In Denmark, and I suspect most of Europe, it's only at High
> School age (grades 10-12: gymnasium, Abitur, baccalaureat, A-levels)
> that students are exposed to teachers with basically no pedagogical
> skills.
IME it's only teachers in colleges/universities/etc. that aren't required to
know how to teach.

> From:    Jim Taylor <friartuk@...>
> Subject: Re: General Question
>
> Indeed Volapuk is alive and kicking! Although the number of speakers is
only
> a tiny fraction of those of Esperanto and even Ido, Interlingua and the
> other more popular IALs, we're still an enthusiastic bunch who think the
> language is still worth keeping going and being used. A lot of useful
> information about Volapuk can be found at
> http://ns.southern.edu/~caviness//Volapuk/
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ken Caviness teaches at my school.  I had him for earth science a couple
years back when I was still falling asleep in class.

    *Muke!
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