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School uniforms not common? It could just be where I lived but every single person I ever met in school in Houston had to wear uniforms all through 8th grade. Khaki or navy pants, red, white, or blue polo shorts. On fridays you could wear jeans and the school shirt. Occasionally you'd hear about a school that let kids wear any color of polo shirt they wanted.
Raposa: Finally have an article here. Any additions? Things that should probably go elsewhere?
Nornagest: There's a few minor things, but one thing I'd definitely change is the class-numbering format for colleges. This seems to vary considerably; at my university, lower-division (roughly, first- and second-year) courses were typically numbered with one or two digits, i.e. "Creative Writing 3" or "Physics 80". 101 classes were typically the first upper-division course in a given major, other upper-division courses were also in the 100 series, and 200-series courses were graduate-level. I don't know how common this is, but it happens.
Raposa: Okay, clarified a little on the numbering. Since I'm not familiar with the standard your university uses, you might want to put in a paragraph yourself. I don't mind others adding the things they know.
It's a bit frustrating to try to sum up all of the American education system, because there's so much local variation.
Tangent 128: Added notes on A.P. and Dual Enrollment.
Fast Eddie: Very clearly presented. It may inspire an entry about private schools in the States building on this baseline. Might need a few humor stings sprinkled in. "Tropered up", as we say. But a neatly written bit, as is.
//later, No, really. It is sort of dry for us, no? We get away with being informative by putting little nuggets of humor in. This could almost be a <shudder> wikipedia article as it is now.
Tangent128: I'll see what I can pothole. //later: Eh, thought of three to add, anyway. The article could definitely use more humor.
Fast Eddie: Tropered it up, a bit. Ran short of time near the end.
Fire Walk: This may need a bit of Pot Holing, but is generally pretty good. One question: what rough ages are the various levels at? From what I've seen on TV, High School appears to cater to 23 year olds pretending they're about 14, but I'm not sure how true that is.
Fast Eddie: High school is over at 18, usually. Middle school ends: 14,15-ish. Last year of grade school: 12. // Later:
Please leave the humor alone! We're not interested in being a dry, facts-only sort of wiki.
Silent Hunter: Can we include a bit on Spring Break?
Keyboarder: Should we add something on the Magnet and International Bacheloriate programs run at some schools or should a new article be made for that?
Janitor Perhaps an article. The article is already very long. Magnet School or similar to should do it. It could be linked to in this article.
stupidnickname: Yargh. I'm a lurker, not a poster, but this page made me log in and get known just for its perpetuation of an annoying mythology: Godsdammit, Title IX is not about sports. It's only become well-known for the mostly unforeseen impact on sports, but it's about making educational programs equally available and equally funded regardless of gender. From the horse's mouth: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
batfan: Whould we make this a Useful Notes page? This is pretty wordy to be a normal page.
iTroper: "the kind of people who want to ban certain books from the school libraries or put stickers on science textbooks claiming that evolution isn't a scientific fact."? Now, I'm going to make my position VERY clear. I am not on ANY side with this. Religious zealots need to learn that their beliefs can't override teaching kids to know about everything they can, and that if there IS a god, "evils of science" wouldn't harm him/her/it in any way (he/she/it IS an immortal, omniscient, omnipotent being by definition if he/she/it does exist). And hardcore atheists should be more open-minded when it comes to "non-existent pink unicorn gods" that still make people happy and preserve the non-overly-conservative morals like NOT murdering or stealing or taking revenge. BUT even actual scientists have forgotten that evolution has not been proven through the modern scientific method. It's LIKELY to be true, but so far the lack of certain pieces of evidence have prevented it from becoming a theorem (a.k.a "scientific fact") instead of remaining a theory. I'm not sure what that should mean for the quoted sentence, but let it be known that unfortunately the "kind of people who want to put stickers on science textbooks" are partially right, even though they shouldn't be putting the stickers on or telling the students not to pay attention to the book's "lies". So Yeah.
