Re: American Jingoism

Siyo!
My old high school is very unusual for a public school
its size (right now about 1750).  At present they
offer 4 years of French and Spanish, 3 of German and
Latin, and 2 of Japanese.

Clint


--- Tristan <anstouh@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, jogloran wrote:
>
> > Wow, that's strange... most schools here in
> Australia have compulsory
> > language learning in primary school (which is
> Kindergarten to 6th
> > grade here),
>
> Except that we say prep to grade six (kinder is
> pre-school). Personally, I
> don't see the point in using incorrect terms to help
> Americans understand,
> most here I'm sure would rather understand...
>
> My primary school had Italian unless you were Arabic
> in which case you did
> Arabic.
>
> > and at my high school, you are made to do 1 term
> each of French,
> > German, Japanese and Latin in Year 7, then in Year
> 8 you get to choose
> > one of them. Year 9 onwards, it's on an elective
> basis (you can if you
> > want).
>
> At my old school (which was 7-10), you had to do a
> semester of Jap and
> Italian and you got to choose one or the other for
> year eight. I don't
> know what happened for years 9 and 10 because I'd
> left by then.
>
> My current school (9-12) makes lotes (languages
> other than English)
> compulsory at years 9 and 10 because, given it
> starts half-way through
> secondary school, they don't know if anyone's learnt
> any lotes yet. You
> get to choose the lang you want to do from the
> start, though.
>
> My sister's school did a similar thing (at years 7
> and 8; it's a year 7 to
> 12 school) although.
>
> The fact that your school offered Latin is
> impressive, most schools don't
> do that (I would've liked to have learnt Latin but
> as far as I can tell
> the only way I could've done that is to pay billions
> of dollars to go to
> Melbourne Grammar rather than next to nothing to go
> to Melbourne High
> which is much better value for money (elitist state
> school)).
>
> I don't know how valid these comparisons are,
> though. (State, Catholic and
> Private schools all together and I have no idea what
> Imperative's school
> is.)
>
> </ramble>
>
> Tristan

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