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Originally Posted by 33girl
Actually, junior high is 7-9 and senior high is 10-12. Our district does not use the term "middle school." (When the new jr high was built, 6th graders were there briefly, but it didn't work out at all to have 11 year olds with 14 & 15 year olds.) Freshmen can participate in some senior high activities (band, chorus) but they are closely monitored, and not allowed to attend senior high social events.
Personally, I think it's a much better option than throwing 14 year olds into senior high social life.
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This is how my high school was. 9th grade was in the junior high, it still counted toward your high school GPA, and everything else above applied. Basically, they couldn't fit the 9th graders in the high school (with nearly 4,000 students), although, I'm not sure that was the original reason that the 9th grade wasn't included.
The school district wanted to move the 9th grade to the high school, and the original plan was to build 4 additional buildings off of the original high school (creating a small campus-like environment). Then Columbine happened, and fear set in that a huge school would.. God knows what. So the year after I graduated, they started renovations on the original high school, and built a second, where there was enough room for the 9th graders.
Personally, I liked it the way it was.
Anyway... after searching further, I've found that between 19 and 22 states allow for corporal punishment to be used in schools! (Every website I look at says a different number).
And as for the short dresses... this has definitely become more popular lately. I just always thought that prom was a long dress kind of occasion. Guess I was wrong...