#70351 - 04/03/200217:57Re: very often wildly off topic (and long)
[Re: wfaulk]
eternalsun Pooh-Bah
Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
Your description doesn't uniformly describe the US. Where I grew up in New York, we had "elementary school" (grades k + 1-6) followed by "junior high school" (grades 7, 8) and high school (9-12).
The one person I knew who took a GED was completely bored with high school, after grade 9, took the GED and went to college directly.