Subject: Education-Advanced Placement-Salinger's Education
Excordis@aol.com
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 18:06:28 EST
I think we are only required to go to school until the age of 16 which
generally means the middle of High School, but to get a High School diploma,
as the vast majority of American students do, it usually takes another two
years. To be more trivial, I'd say many people take two years for an
associates degree, or four for a bachelors. Advanced Placement classes are
classes which give one or two college credits which are accepted by most, but
certainly not all colleges towards a degree. Most children now attend a year
of pre-school. That is a year of mostly wasted, I think, time in which they
learn to interact with other kids and play together. Something which should
probably have been done a bit earlier if it hasn't been done.
Salinger's only college courses were a few creative writing classes at
Columbia, is that right?
Though nothing exceptionally bad, I think there's a few grammarical
errors here, and in other posts that bananafishers complain about, so could
someone please reccomend a useful book.
-Tory
> Oh, and by the way, what's "AP"? >>
>
> Advanced Placement. High school kids in the states on an AP track take
> college level courses while still in High School. That's the most
advanced
> course of instruction a HS student can take.
>
> Our children go through school in this order (these are approximations
that
> vary from area to area):
>
> Elementary school -- kindergarten through 6th grade (you are usually in
6th
> when you're 11 or 12 or so).
>
> Middle or Junior High School -- 7th and 8th grades (12-14 years old).
>
> High School -- 9th through 12th grades. You're usually 17 when you
graduate
>
> HS. This amount of education is required of all US citizens. After this
> you
> can voluntarily go to a 2 or 4 year college.
>
> Jim
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