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Post by Midnight Butterfly on Feb 18, 2010 20:26:31 GMT -5
I think this thread belongs here as it isn't for help questions about the site, but just general questions that people may not be able to answer yet are interested in.
People at Slayalive are situated all around the world and have different knowledge in different areas and therefore I thought it would be cool to have a thread were people can ask that random question that has been stuck in the back of your mind.
I'll start of with a question I have always been confused about.
I just wanted to know about the schooling system in America. What age so you guys start school and how many different types of school stages are there. For example we have primary school, then secondary school and after that university.
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Post by willowsummers on Feb 18, 2010 20:30:03 GMT -5
It may be different in different places... I live in NC, in the southern part of the US... We start to school at 5. There's 6 years of elementary school, 3 of middle school or junior high and then 4 years of high school. Then you can go to college or a university.  Lots of kids go to "preschool" before they're 5 but I have no experience with that so it'd probably be best for someone else to tell you about that. |
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Post by Midnight Butterfly on Feb 18, 2010 20:35:14 GMT -5
It may be different in different places... I live in NC, in the southern part of the US... We start to school at 5. There's 6 years of elementary school, 3 of middle school or junior high and then 4 years of high school. Then you can go to college or a university. Lots of kids go to "preschool" before they're 5 but I have no experience with that so it'd probably be best for someone else to tell you about that. Cool, that was a really fast reply  Thats only one year short of our education process, or one year more in some cases. We start primary school at the age of 4 and spend seven years there. We then start Secondary School and we spend 7 years there, although you can leave school at any time after your first 5 years. At 16 education is not compulsary and you can leave school whenever you like. If you choose to stay and do the two remaining two years you gain qualifactions which lead you to university. Karma for fast reply |
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Post by The Girl In Question on Feb 18, 2010 20:37:31 GMT -5
In the Us most people go to preschool at age 4, but that's not always the case. Usually preschool is where you learn how to share, appropriate behavior at school, etc. Usually people are either 17 or 18 when they graduate from their last year of highschool.
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Post by willowsummers on Feb 18, 2010 20:38:02 GMT -5
You can "drop out" when you're 16, if you want to. But you will not graduate and you'll have to get a GED, which is supposed to be a high school equivalent. You have to pass tests in order to get it, but people also know that you didn't finish high school and get your diploma...
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Post by Iceeh★ on Feb 18, 2010 20:48:16 GMT -5
I think the 6 years of elementary/3 years of junior high differ in some places, cause in Alaska, we had 7 years of elementary and only 2 years of junior high.
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Post by The Girl In Question on Feb 18, 2010 20:53:20 GMT -5
^^ Wha?  o.0 |
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Post by Eric on Feb 18, 2010 20:56:32 GMT -5
In Utah, or my area of Utah at least, elementary was Preschool, Kindergarten and grades 1-6, but then the junior high school got rebuilt and is big enough to accommodate the sixth graders. Now it's elementary up to 5, then 6-8 in junior high school and 9-12 in high school.
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Post by Jsebold87 on Feb 18, 2010 23:51:01 GMT -5
In my area of Wisconsin there's kindergarten, elementary (1-6), junior high (7 & 8), and then high school (9-12). I went to a regular elementary school for years 1-5, and then switched to a private school which had grades kindergarten through 8th grade in it. So I stayed there for 'junior high', and went to high school afterwards. My 8th grade class there had 3 kids in it (including me). We also have pre-school here, but I never went.
My mom graduated high school early, when she was 16 or 17. Back then it was some sort of test she had to take for her diploma.
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Post by The Girl In Question on Feb 19, 2010 0:09:55 GMT -5
^^ I started college when I was 17 And it's so weird the difference between states makes. It's like we libe in different countries. But I guess that's what happens when the country is so big. God bless Amurrica.  |
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Post by Beaumonde on Feb 19, 2010 4:23:12 GMT -5
In Scotland you get 8 years in primary school, and go to high school when you're 12. It's really weird how they decide what school year you should be in aswell. If you're in P7 (the last year of primary school) you could still be 11 years old, aslong as your birthday is before February.
In England we go to high school when we're 11, and if you're birthday is even one day after the starting date for the new school year (so you're 10, and you turn 11 on like september 7th when school is already started) you'd still be in primary school, and basically turn 12 as soon as you start high school. If that makes sense. It was kind of weird moving from the English system to the Scottish.
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Post by Wyndam on Feb 19, 2010 13:49:15 GMT -5
Ha I'm actually surprised at how different the school systems are across America, I thought they were all pretty similar. For me (in Virginia) we went from Elementary school, usually ages 5-10 (Grades 1-5), then Middle School, usually ages 11-13 (Grades 6-8), and finally High School, usually ages 14-17 (Grades 9-12).
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Post by Midnight Butterfly on Feb 19, 2010 14:09:48 GMT -5
Thanks for answering my question everybody, you have all been very helpful.
I never knew that different states would differ so much, especially in schooling systems.
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Post by Eric on Feb 20, 2010 19:15:47 GMT -5
New question:
Why are apples opaque and oranges translucent while apple juice is translucent and orange juice is opaque?
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Post by Wyndam on Feb 20, 2010 19:35:06 GMT -5
Hmm, is apple juice always purely apple juice though? It usually has other stuff added in, whereas you can usually find pure orange juice at the store. Maybe it is the additives that make it translucent, because apple cider is usually opaque (unless you make it from apple juice).
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Post by Eric on Feb 20, 2010 20:16:59 GMT -5
Hmm, is apple juice always purely apple juice though? It usually has other stuff added in, whereas you can usually find pure orange juice at the store. Maybe it is the additives that make it translucent, because apple cider is usually opaque (unless you make it from apple juice). You're right, cider is opaque, but I think I've seen 100% apple juice that was translucent, so I don't think it could be additives. |
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Post by elenasaur on Feb 20, 2010 21:36:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I think that Apple Juice is pretty much always transparent. I just checked on wikipedia, and it said that apple cider is opaque because there are apple particles in suspension. I guess the process differs between juice and cider, and that would be why the taste differs as well.
Don't know why orange juice is opaque though. Maybe it's the same thing as apple cider, a suspension or something.
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Post by Eric on Feb 20, 2010 22:29:38 GMT -5
Don't know why orange juice is opaque though. Maybe it's the same thing as apple cider, a suspension or something. I.E. pulp? Besides, the orange itself is translucent. How would it make liquid opaque? |
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Post by elenasaur on Feb 21, 2010 9:29:49 GMT -5
I.E. pulp? Besides, the orange itself is translucent. How would it make liquid opaque? Well, orange juice without pulp is still opaque. So I don't really know. |
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Post by wenxina on Feb 21, 2010 23:01:07 GMT -5
The apple juice you buy is usually clarified. If you take an apple and stick it in a juicer, or a blender, the result is an opaque suspension of apple particles.
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