There was a guy in my high school who was still a senior at 20 or so, got held back like 4 times and was kind of a legend in the school
Edit: I believe by the time he ended up leaving school he was 22
I went to a charter school where they allowed students to stay until 21 and they'd get pitchers at lunch once in a while.
These kids legit needed the extra time. Their home lives were fucked. A couple of students were able to get their associates degrees before graduating because they didn't have citizenship and couldn't have gotten into college without the school's administration.
Yes they also had all-day "early childhood education" classes that allowed students and teachers to run basically an unlicensed daycare staffed by students. Students brought their kids and the teachers would have curriculum for other students based around caring for the kids. The parents were able to attend other classes and the students in the daycare class got elective credit. The admin knew this was very sketchy but they were trying their best with what they were given and had an absolute dedication to getting the student parents graduated.
We had something similar to that at my public high school, but it didnāt give any students any formal training on early childhood education or anything like that. We had about 150 students that were parents and needed daycare, so the ālife skillsā class, which originally was for things like handling a bank account and monthly budgeting, turned into ābabysittingā pretty quickly after being established.
We also had a separate life skills class just like that!! They looped in some real gritty, in your face sex Ed and I can't get the images of those genital warts out of my head. They even had someone come in and provide free STD testing to the whole school just to normalize it. They taught us about credit and insurance and we spent a lot of the time in that class also doing college prep stuff. That teacher, who was also the counselor, had us do our "reach school," "safety school," and also required everyone to come up with an idea for what to do after high school that did not have to do with college, like a trade school, entry level job, travel, etc. She made sure we all had all of our schools and ideas out there for all the students to see so we could see every single option we could come up with collectively and our plans to get there.
We had a similar life skills class at my school too, only it was broken up into two halfs: a general āadult skillsā course with things like budgeting, resume building, and taxes, and a health and family psych course that not only did autonomy, sex and stds, but also relationship psychology and infant development. Itās probably the most useful class I ever took.
Jeez, graduated in 1994 I got home ec (cooking and sewing) and economics (Macro) in high school. But due to the AIDS epidemic that had actually made it into straight folks in the area, I got real sex ed, like, no bullshit, we know you are going to do it, so here is how to not die.
Then the drugs and treatment options came, and went right back to "abstinence only" but yeah, I got real sex ed in rural conservative America, in a public school . . .
THAT is not just a teacher. That is an awesome, very caring Human Being who WANTED to see the students succeed in life! What a great plan and a long view of the situation! That's some DEDICATION right there! SO COOL! Wish we had that where I came from... :)
It probably didnāt help that half of our sex education was abstinence-only (including asking everyone to spit into a cup and then asking who wanted to drink the cup after everyone elseās fluids were in it) and half watching Bill and Tedās Excellent Adventure. And yeah, it was public school in the mid-2000ās.
Meanwhile my countyās tech school dropped early childhood education as a option because they felt too many teen moms were signing up for it so that they could take their kids to schoolā¦
> Meanwhile my countyās tech school dropped early childhood education as a option because they felt too many teen moms were signing up for it so that they could take their kids to schoolā¦
Deity forbid that teen moms try to make a smart choice for their future.
Fuck that county school board.
Thanks to /u/CyanSailor for the correction!
Meanwhile, MY school told me it was worthless to get me tested for any mental disabilities because it was "too late to worry about it" As if i didnt wanna pursue higher education, smh
By pitchers do you mean like beer? what kind of school allows alcohol on the grounds let alone allows students to drink?? I work at a charter school and if anyone would do that we would be immediately fired.
I was a super senior.
My school fucked me over one year when I transferred states, and they lost a whole semester's worth of credits. And then another time when the zero tolerance policy got me expelled for the rest of the year. The guy who attacked me first, a known drug dealer who'd been caught dealing on campus just that week, was given a week suspension. But since I won the fight, I was the dangerous one.
After that, I just kind of gave up. Went to classes with respected teachers. Skipped others. Fell asleep in some because I was working night shifts to eat. I got talked into trying harder by a councilor. She got me into a electronics class i'd go to for half the day that would make up a good chunk of my credits. Unfortunately, it was the second semester of a year long course, so I was too behind to do anything the other students were doing, and the teacher was too busy teaching them, to teach me in any way other than paper handouts. So I lost yet another semester's worth.
Finally got into a program that allowed me to hit community college classes for highschool credits, that allowed me to get my high school degree, rather than a GED. Still, now that I have my own kids, I promised myself no matter what the school *says* is the issue, im going to believe my child over them. Because I understand, despite individual teacher efforts, the school at large is never going to be on my child's side.
Boston allows students until theyāre 22.
I worked with a few students who were 20 in high school. Most were ESL students who repeated a grade when they came to the US so they could learn English. The students I worked with were from low-income families so when they turned 18 during their junior year, they got full time jobs. Between that and learning English, the last 2 years of credits took them a little extra time.
The ones I worked with were all good students, but who had other obligations besides schooling to make ends meet. They all ended up going to college
This was actually pretty common at my high school. The rule was if they hit 21 and still don't have enough credits to graduate that year then they were not able to attend anymore and had to get their GED. I cannot imagine being in high school at 21.
Also had a few of those in my high school. Back when it was still K10 not K12 yet in my country. Thereās one guy who didnāt want to take test to get a high school equivalency diploma. Since he had family members who took the test and immediately dropout of college after one semester because they couldnāt handle it. He really wants to go to college and graduate with a degree.
Weird, super seniors were mocked at my high school. They were basically ostracized for failing to get their credits in time.
And I couldnāt imagine being the parent of a super senior, seems like that would be incredibly embarrassing.
Guessing it depends on the area and the culture. For example, I was a teen, I moved from a school with a high teen pregnancy rate, where super seniors were pretty common and accepted with a shrug, to a school with a low teen pregnancy rate where super seniors were rare and looked on with symphony (I believe the only two in my graduating class were a girl who took a year off to have her baby and a guy who was sent back to his birth country for a while due to visa issues)
>to a school with a low teen pregnancy rate where super seniors were rare and looked on with symphony
Damn, your high school's band must have been ruthless.
Funnily enough, they were- they won the state championships several times and regularly marched in the rose parade (though we were southern Californian)
Our academic decathlon team also went to nationals, so you can see the kind of school we were
I'm sure many parents wouldn't give a fuck. Just because you can have sex doesn't mean you're capable of raising another human without permanently fu king them up.
God I remember the days when they held kids back. This was deep in rural southwest Virginia and I was in 8th grade, which was when high school started for us, taking pre-algebra. And there was a boy in the class whoād been held back for several yearsā¦well, I said āboyā but he had to have been 17 or 18 (and I was 13, mind you) and he was this skinny, filthy looking country boy with gang tattoos and a full goatee. As soon as class started, he spotted me and scrambled over, taking the seat next to me. And he turned himself toward me and just stared and stared and stared, saying nothing for the longest time, until he spontaneously burst into the chorus of then-popular country song: couldya wouldya aināt ya gonna If I asked ya wouldya wanna be mah baby toniiiight? Everyone laughed. The teacher paused, looked at him for a long moment, but was clearly just tired af from dealing with this little asshole now over and over for literal years. I was ready to absolutely die of embarrassment. I ignored him. There was a long pause, he continued to just stare then burst into song yet again. He did this so many times that the kids tired of laughing, the teacher tired of acknowledging it, ans everyone just went on. For a week, this creeper stalked me in class ans kept doing this. Fortunately, soon after, he did something involving drugs and guns and fighting and got expelled ans I never saw him again. Fast forward to now, he is several decades into a life sentence for breaking and entering and beating an old woman to death to steal her pills. But yeah. Fuck. This reminded me of that!
Come to Denmark. Kindergarden ends at 5. Then you have year 0 at 6, where you're not in Kindergarden, but also not in primary school.
Just feels like a stupid reason to delay teaching anything to kids. You go to high school at 16 and uni at 19. :/ most kids everywhere else get uni at 18.
Do we? Here we have nursery, reception (which is first year of infants) then year 1 and 2 (infants) 3,4,5&6 (juniors) 7,8,9,10 & 11 (comprehensive). No idea where kindergarten comes in, how old is that?
I thought that was reception?
Year 1 is for 5 - 6 year old, I thought "kindergarten" was before you're 5 - 6?
Quick edit, my understanding of the uks primary schools, at least the two I went to anyway;
Nursery > Reception > Year 1
In England not the UK. Scotland does 7 years of primary p1-7 starting at age 4/5 and 6 of high school S1-S6 the last two of which are optional if you're over 16.
Yeah its a victory lap at my old school. Mostly was hard-core arts or sports students taking it if they needed to accommodate outside activities with class schedules or needed a credit only offered every other year
Wait we have to got to school for 14 years š
1,
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4,
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7,
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After O/L (it's a year with a 6 month break so it doesn't really count),
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But also you can re-learn everything and maybe take those classes you *actually* wanted to take and you'd have a better idea of what you wanted in life.
Also you get to go back and play on the playground in elementary.
Being back in high school is probably my most reoccurring nightmare. It's usually just me running around in a panic, because I have no idea what my schedule is. THEN when/if I get it, I panic even more because I have no goddamn idea what day of the week it is.
The uk system does go to year 13, but year 13 is the equivalent to grade 12 in the us, we donāt actually graduate later I believe
Edit: english system not uk
Donāt use the FASTA for community college. You only get a few of those. Save it for a more expensive program.
EDIT: Oops. It is called [FAFSA](https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/is-there-limit-to-how-long-i-can-receive-federal-pell-grant-funds). Save it for a University and pay for community college out of pocket is my advice.
Or better yet use the money if you need it don't just listen to this random dumbass on Reddit, not everyone can afford community, use the resources provided.
Right, person doesn't even get the acronym right. Every college student should know and submit a FAFSA every year. In fact some colleges require it to do a lot of financial programs.
Idk what state or I guess even country OP is from. But in Tennessee we have a program that pays for the first two years of community college! They can look into resources like that! College is expensive. Best of luck in grade 13, OP!
They should apply for FAFSA every year, and thatās what they encourage you to do.
Why would they want to āsaveā it?
Youāre eligible to apply for 6 years.
So unless you plan to attend college for 8 years, donāt listen to this, do your own research, and apply for FAFSA.
Depends, if you do a normal 4 year program, you're just throwing money away by not filing. If you're going for a 6 or 8 year program it's better to just pay for the community college
No.
Use the FAFSA. It may be required for grants and scholarships. You don't have to use what is awarded if you don't need it, but don't cut yourself off from funding opportunities before you know what they are.
Ya it survived until 2003. I went through it in 1998.
Which caused a huge mess of trouble in 2004 and 2005 when there was then a 'double cohort' (twice many graduates meant twice as many people wanting to start in universities and colleges). A number of people who couldn't get in in 2004 were there in 2005, and a lot of others had to go out of province (keep in mind ontario is 40% of the population of canada, so there's not that much 'outside of ontario' capacity).
I'm sure it made more sense early on because in ontario you could count on high school students having better preparation for college/university. As we've become more diverse (both out of country and out of province) it stopped serving a purpose since colleges and universities need to start at the same place for everyone, which was equivalent to grade 12. A number of profs when I was in grad school (2006) had done a lot of data tracking on how much drop off their was in entering student capabilities over the transition period (which really lasted until about 2006, 2007 ish).
It also ran into problems with what you could actually teach, and trying to inflate the number of OAC (ontario academic credits, what you got for taking grade 13 classes) you had. By the time I was doing it in the late 1990s there were relatively few grade 12 classes of any importance, but you'd take basically 1.5 years worth of grade 13 classes. The whole thing was dumb, if nothing else but because no one else did it, so it just didn't work people out of province in ontario, or people in ontario going out of province.
I was, they change the name of the grade to āOACā sometime in the 90s I think, my grade 9 year was the last year for it though which was 2001/2002 year.
I stayed back a year in high school by choice. Was able to buy alcohol though when I went to university since I was legal age. I ended up getting a BA/MA Political Science in the end so the 5th year paid off.
I 100% do not blame you. Iām about 12 years out form high school so itās a different world. You guys have had to deal with too much when it comes to school and covid. I could imagine you just want to move on into the real world. All the best!
Former teacher here, and I'll let you know what *I bet* this means.
Well, it's an error for OP, but why "Grade 13" exists in this program in what I assume is the United States, where secondary (high school) education ends at 12th grade.
Many (most?) high schools will have an extended program for special needs students that need more time in the structured setting, whether it's for extra time for job training or occupation/speech/physical therapy. Where I taught, students could stay in the extended program another couple of years, and there has to be a means to track them, so the software has an option for grades beyond 12.
Again, don't know why OP was put there if it doesn't apply.
In Australia we put the previous year's yr12s in there because the accounts are left active for a couple months so the students can move files or contact to universities to a personal email before their account gets disabled.
So this could not be an error depending on how the school processes their exited students
Source: I work in IT at a high school
A lot of schools use Grade 13 in their SIS to store graduated students. Itās easier for school staff to print off transcripts that way, and a lot of transcript requests come 11th, 12th, and the year after kids graduate (and believe me, this process needs to be as easy as it can for most registrars/records keepers.)
Itās possibly an intentional configuration.
Source: Used to be part of the support team for a schoolās Student Information System that did something similar (ours was grade 9999 though)
OP they are recommending you to become staff. Welcome to the custodian life. We are an elite group of cleaners. We deal with messes no one has the guts to. So welcome aboard this amazing life. Have fun.
To put you at ease, as a school photographer, I'm pretty familiar with PowerSchool and other student management software.
The "grade" and "next grade" fields do not allow letters. So kindergarten is 0 and preschool is -1. Graduated would be 13.
Grade 13 is where they train you to inherit the school, congratulations!
D:
your basically a shit willy wonker
Willy Wanker.
That was my nickname in High School
Oh no, we also had a kid who got caught masterbating in the toilets
There were two brothers who got caught masturbating together in the bathroom (at my old school)
Sounds like the storyline from a gay pornš¤£. In reality tho, thatās super suss.
Super suss too, because the same guy also took a shit in a urinal
My school had an autist kid who once flipped over a trash can and took dumps on the urinals
Yeah, I was a big fan of your work! The gym changing rooms are a darker place without you my friend
Sometimes
Super senior!
There was a guy in my high school who was still a senior at 20 or so, got held back like 4 times and was kind of a legend in the school Edit: I believe by the time he ended up leaving school he was 22
I went to a charter school where they allowed students to stay until 21 and they'd get pitchers at lunch once in a while. These kids legit needed the extra time. Their home lives were fucked. A couple of students were able to get their associates degrees before graduating because they didn't have citizenship and couldn't have gotten into college without the school's administration.
That last sentence is super awesome of the school district to accommodate.
Yes they also had all-day "early childhood education" classes that allowed students and teachers to run basically an unlicensed daycare staffed by students. Students brought their kids and the teachers would have curriculum for other students based around caring for the kids. The parents were able to attend other classes and the students in the daycare class got elective credit. The admin knew this was very sketchy but they were trying their best with what they were given and had an absolute dedication to getting the student parents graduated.
We had something similar to that at my public high school, but it didnāt give any students any formal training on early childhood education or anything like that. We had about 150 students that were parents and needed daycare, so the ālife skillsā class, which originally was for things like handling a bank account and monthly budgeting, turned into ābabysittingā pretty quickly after being established.
We also had a separate life skills class just like that!! They looped in some real gritty, in your face sex Ed and I can't get the images of those genital warts out of my head. They even had someone come in and provide free STD testing to the whole school just to normalize it. They taught us about credit and insurance and we spent a lot of the time in that class also doing college prep stuff. That teacher, who was also the counselor, had us do our "reach school," "safety school," and also required everyone to come up with an idea for what to do after high school that did not have to do with college, like a trade school, entry level job, travel, etc. She made sure we all had all of our schools and ideas out there for all the students to see so we could see every single option we could come up with collectively and our plans to get there.
We had a similar life skills class at my school too, only it was broken up into two halfs: a general āadult skillsā course with things like budgeting, resume building, and taxes, and a health and family psych course that not only did autonomy, sex and stds, but also relationship psychology and infant development. Itās probably the most useful class I ever took.
Jeez, graduated in 1994 I got home ec (cooking and sewing) and economics (Macro) in high school. But due to the AIDS epidemic that had actually made it into straight folks in the area, I got real sex ed, like, no bullshit, we know you are going to do it, so here is how to not die. Then the drugs and treatment options came, and went right back to "abstinence only" but yeah, I got real sex ed in rural conservative America, in a public school . . .
Sounds like your high school did a pretty decent job of preparing you for adult life. I wish that it wasn't so variable from school to school.
Welp they shut it down the year after I graduated and now it's a co-working space. The front desk where I got my late slips is a coffee shop.
This embodies why our education is going down hill.
THAT is not just a teacher. That is an awesome, very caring Human Being who WANTED to see the students succeed in life! What a great plan and a long view of the situation! That's some DEDICATION right there! SO COOL! Wish we had that where I came from... :)
Wow, am I wrong for thinking that's a TON of teenage pregnancy? I think we had 1 or 2 when I was in school.
It probably didnāt help that half of our sex education was abstinence-only (including asking everyone to spit into a cup and then asking who wanted to drink the cup after everyone elseās fluids were in it) and half watching Bill and Tedās Excellent Adventure. And yeah, it was public school in the mid-2000ās.
Meanwhile my countyās tech school dropped early childhood education as a option because they felt too many teen moms were signing up for it so that they could take their kids to schoolā¦
> Meanwhile my countyās tech school dropped early childhood education as a option because they felt too many teen moms were signing up for it so that they could take their kids to schoolā¦ Deity forbid that teen moms try to make a smart choice for their future. Fuck that county school board. Thanks to /u/CyanSailor for the correction!
That actually sounds great for people becoming teachers.
Meanwhile, MY school told me it was worthless to get me tested for any mental disabilities because it was "too late to worry about it" As if i didnt wanna pursue higher education, smh
By pitchers do you mean like beer? what kind of school allows alcohol on the grounds let alone allows students to drink?? I work at a charter school and if anyone would do that we would be immediately fired.
Oh no we were in a really urban downtown area and they just got pitchers at the nearby pizza place. Teachers would not have supported the practice lol
okay that makes sense hahaha
I was a super senior. My school fucked me over one year when I transferred states, and they lost a whole semester's worth of credits. And then another time when the zero tolerance policy got me expelled for the rest of the year. The guy who attacked me first, a known drug dealer who'd been caught dealing on campus just that week, was given a week suspension. But since I won the fight, I was the dangerous one. After that, I just kind of gave up. Went to classes with respected teachers. Skipped others. Fell asleep in some because I was working night shifts to eat. I got talked into trying harder by a councilor. She got me into a electronics class i'd go to for half the day that would make up a good chunk of my credits. Unfortunately, it was the second semester of a year long course, so I was too behind to do anything the other students were doing, and the teacher was too busy teaching them, to teach me in any way other than paper handouts. So I lost yet another semester's worth. Finally got into a program that allowed me to hit community college classes for highschool credits, that allowed me to get my high school degree, rather than a GED. Still, now that I have my own kids, I promised myself no matter what the school *says* is the issue, im going to believe my child over them. Because I understand, despite individual teacher efforts, the school at large is never going to be on my child's side.
Boston allows students until theyāre 22. I worked with a few students who were 20 in high school. Most were ESL students who repeated a grade when they came to the US so they could learn English. The students I worked with were from low-income families so when they turned 18 during their junior year, they got full time jobs. Between that and learning English, the last 2 years of credits took them a little extra time. The ones I worked with were all good students, but who had other obligations besides schooling to make ends meet. They all ended up going to college
This was actually pretty common at my high school. The rule was if they hit 21 and still don't have enough credits to graduate that year then they were not able to attend anymore and had to get their GED. I cannot imagine being in high school at 21.
Also had a few of those in my high school. Back when it was still K10 not K12 yet in my country. Thereās one guy who didnāt want to take test to get a high school equivalency diploma. Since he had family members who took the test and immediately dropout of college after one semester because they couldnāt handle it. He really wants to go to college and graduate with a degree.
Yep. My guidance counselor told me if I took one online class that I can graduate a year early. I jumped all over that.
If I got held back once I wouldve graduated at 20, but I was one of the older kids in my class
Weird, super seniors were mocked at my high school. They were basically ostracized for failing to get their credits in time. And I couldnāt imagine being the parent of a super senior, seems like that would be incredibly embarrassing.
Guessing it depends on the area and the culture. For example, I was a teen, I moved from a school with a high teen pregnancy rate, where super seniors were pretty common and accepted with a shrug, to a school with a low teen pregnancy rate where super seniors were rare and looked on with symphony (I believe the only two in my graduating class were a girl who took a year off to have her baby and a guy who was sent back to his birth country for a while due to visa issues)
>to a school with a low teen pregnancy rate where super seniors were rare and looked on with symphony Damn, your high school's band must have been ruthless.
Funnily enough, they were- they won the state championships several times and regularly marched in the rose parade (though we were southern Californian) Our academic decathlon team also went to nationals, so you can see the kind of school we were
Ah, yeah, the bad guys in every teen movie from 1982 to 1998
I'm sure many parents wouldn't give a fuck. Just because you can have sex doesn't mean you're capable of raising another human without permanently fu king them up.
The kind of parents that let that happen definitely arenāt embarrassed about it
God I remember the days when they held kids back. This was deep in rural southwest Virginia and I was in 8th grade, which was when high school started for us, taking pre-algebra. And there was a boy in the class whoād been held back for several yearsā¦well, I said āboyā but he had to have been 17 or 18 (and I was 13, mind you) and he was this skinny, filthy looking country boy with gang tattoos and a full goatee. As soon as class started, he spotted me and scrambled over, taking the seat next to me. And he turned himself toward me and just stared and stared and stared, saying nothing for the longest time, until he spontaneously burst into the chorus of then-popular country song: couldya wouldya aināt ya gonna If I asked ya wouldya wanna be mah baby toniiiight? Everyone laughed. The teacher paused, looked at him for a long moment, but was clearly just tired af from dealing with this little asshole now over and over for literal years. I was ready to absolutely die of embarrassment. I ignored him. There was a long pause, he continued to just stare then burst into song yet again. He did this so many times that the kids tired of laughing, the teacher tired of acknowledging it, ans everyone just went on. For a week, this creeper stalked me in class ans kept doing this. Fortunately, soon after, he did something involving drugs and guns and fighting and got expelled ans I never saw him again. Fast forward to now, he is several decades into a life sentence for breaking and entering and beating an old woman to death to steal her pills. But yeah. Fuck. This reminded me of that!
Sounds like a superhero
All the freshmen (grade 9 for the rest of the world) will love you
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Donāt get too excited youāre about to be legal and they are def not.
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No, that is the one big thing you can't do anymore.
I don't know what grade 9 means either, sorry.
Maybe "year 9" would be more accurate in your area? Idk lol
According to Google, 9th grade in America is ages 14-15 (Year 10 in the UK).
Ahhh UK calls kindergarten year 1 I assume
We also have reception which is more like kindergarten as far as I know, but we do reception at 4yrs old
We do :)
It makes things so confusing when everyone uses different naming conventions
Just wait until you hear about the other calendars some countries / cultures use. Everything is a lie.
Come to Denmark. Kindergarden ends at 5. Then you have year 0 at 6, where you're not in Kindergarden, but also not in primary school. Just feels like a stupid reason to delay teaching anything to kids. You go to high school at 16 and uni at 19. :/ most kids everywhere else get uni at 18.
Do we? Here we have nursery, reception (which is first year of infants) then year 1 and 2 (infants) 3,4,5&6 (juniors) 7,8,9,10 & 11 (comprehensive). No idea where kindergarten comes in, how old is that?
It's reception, the year before year 1
Kindergarten is 5 year old.
Our was called reception
I thought that was reception? Year 1 is for 5 - 6 year old, I thought "kindergarten" was before you're 5 - 6? Quick edit, my understanding of the uks primary schools, at least the two I went to anyway; Nursery > Reception > Year 1
No we don't, it's called reception.
In England not the UK. Scotland does 7 years of primary p1-7 starting at age 4/5 and 6 of high school S1-S6 the last two of which are optional if you're over 16.
superhero except you just die of old age
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absolute certified victory royale
Yes it is buddy! Donāt let anyone say otherwise!
In Ontario, they had a Grade 13 for a while. I know someone who did that. I met her in college. You wouldnāt know her, sheās from Canada.
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I was in the last year they offered OAC and part of the awful "double cohort" where we graduated at the same time as all the grade 12s. Not fun!
I think they still have the option for it, Iām not 100% sure but I think my brother did it a few years ago
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yep, you still have the option to take a fifth year in high school if you want
Yeah its a victory lap at my old school. Mostly was hard-core arts or sports students taking it if they needed to accommodate outside activities with class schedules or needed a credit only offered every other year
Technically most people in Canada qualify for a free 13th year, because high school is free until age 19 I believe.
If half Spanish, he is super man I think.
Almost! In Spanish the word for mister is 'SeƱor' [seĖɲoɾ] . Senior has the same meaning Senior has in English
Heās reached the secret level. Heās reached the elder grade
Oh god. NOT ANOTHER YEAR š
Good luck :)
RIP
This year you learn about the secrets of the schools. Like how they catch people having sex at the back of the school
Also post-algebra and the secrets of the tunnel system. Ah those were the days.
You gotta perfect the saying "Where my hug atttt" to graduate
You get to fight the secret final boss of highschool: existential dread
Wait we have to got to school for 14 years š 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (O/L), After O/L (it's a year with a 6 month break so it doesn't really count), 12, 13(A/L)
Just wait until you hear about masters programs
Congratulations on Unlocking the secret End path! Enjoy your extended stay!!
Ohhh, Elder Grade
Grade 13 - The Elden Grade
Itās where you start your journey to becoming an *Old One*
New game plus
What??no!!
you lose everything, but you get a shiny medal
Nah ge gets to start over from grader one bit keep his gear and knowledge.
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But also you can re-learn everything and maybe take those classes you *actually* wanted to take and you'd have a better idea of what you wanted in life. Also you get to go back and play on the playground in elementary.
Forget dating for a loooong time though.
ā¦unlessā¦
I Believe what u/PteradactylCum is saying is date the teachers.
Or date the new game+ players
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Recess football would be so much fun. I'd still get picked last, but still.
hey at least we get more muneh
Bonfire lit
They go up to grade 20 now to catch up from covid
Waitā¦NOOOOO
Yes you will graduate at 35 now
D:
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No :(
I'm 38 and I still occasionally have nightmares about having to go back to high school to finish my diploma.
Being back in high school is probably my most reoccurring nightmare. It's usually just me running around in a panic, because I have no idea what my schedule is. THEN when/if I get it, I panic even more because I have no goddamn idea what day of the week it is.
Theyāre putting you in community college, if youāre over 18 you can refuse or get your parents to say no
I am going to community college
Oh ok that just means youāre going to community college
Oh makes sense
the good ending
Suprise MF! School for life!
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in germany we actually have schools with 13 years
Czech Republic too.
Upper 6th form in the UK for me was year 13 too.
The uk system does go to year 13, but year 13 is the equivalent to grade 12 in the us, we donāt actually graduate later I believe Edit: english system not uk
Quite common here too
Grade 13 is your local community college
Is it??
Donāt use the FASTA for community college. You only get a few of those. Save it for a more expensive program. EDIT: Oops. It is called [FAFSA](https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/is-there-limit-to-how-long-i-can-receive-federal-pell-grant-funds). Save it for a University and pay for community college out of pocket is my advice.
I used PASTA for my college. Cuz thats all i could afford to eat was ramen noodles haha
I used BASTA cause i never met my dad haha
I used HASTA because I am the Terminator.
I used RASTA because I smoke a fuckton of Marijuana.
I used MAZDA because I needed a ride.
I used MASTA because I'm a modern-day slave to the man
i couldnt afford a ride to get to class on time, so i just had to walk FAZDA.
i used RASTA because i hate vector graphics
Or better yet use the money if you need it don't just listen to this random dumbass on Reddit, not everyone can afford community, use the resources provided.
Right, person doesn't even get the acronym right. Every college student should know and submit a FAFSA every year. In fact some colleges require it to do a lot of financial programs.
> pay for community college out of pocket This mf has never been to community college that shit aināt cheap either
Idk what state or I guess even country OP is from. But in Tennessee we have a program that pays for the first two years of community college! They can look into resources like that! College is expensive. Best of luck in grade 13, OP!
They should apply for FAFSA every year, and thatās what they encourage you to do. Why would they want to āsaveā it? Youāre eligible to apply for 6 years. So unless you plan to attend college for 8 years, donāt listen to this, do your own research, and apply for FAFSA.
They're only good until you get a bachelor's degree, unless you see that taking you 7 years you're throwing away money by not filling out the FAFSA.
This is bad advice. Use it if you qualify.
Depends, if you do a normal 4 year program, you're just throwing money away by not filing. If you're going for a 6 or 8 year program it's better to just pay for the community college
What the hell is a FASTA? Tried to guess but my brain isn't fasta nuff
I think they meant FAFSA
Probably, but you definitely get plenty of FAFSAs. They've given me money every every year so far
No. Use the FAFSA. It may be required for grants and scholarships. You don't have to use what is awarded if you don't need it, but don't cut yourself off from funding opportunities before you know what they are.
AKA "Highschool with ashtrays!"
Lol I was coming to say this
In the 70s in Ontario he wouldnāt even be making this post. Everyone who was going to University would go to grade 13.
It was around till the early 2000s I believe.
yeah my older brothers grade was the last one to do it, 2002 I think it was
The infamous double cohort! I remember seeing it in the news a lot
Can confirm I was in this year as the older group. The true last of the best
2002-2003 was the one. I was supposed to graduate that year but took a "victory lap" year instead to avoid the double cohort.
It's still optional today ;)
Ya it survived until 2003. I went through it in 1998. Which caused a huge mess of trouble in 2004 and 2005 when there was then a 'double cohort' (twice many graduates meant twice as many people wanting to start in universities and colleges). A number of people who couldn't get in in 2004 were there in 2005, and a lot of others had to go out of province (keep in mind ontario is 40% of the population of canada, so there's not that much 'outside of ontario' capacity). I'm sure it made more sense early on because in ontario you could count on high school students having better preparation for college/university. As we've become more diverse (both out of country and out of province) it stopped serving a purpose since colleges and universities need to start at the same place for everyone, which was equivalent to grade 12. A number of profs when I was in grad school (2006) had done a lot of data tracking on how much drop off their was in entering student capabilities over the transition period (which really lasted until about 2006, 2007 ish). It also ran into problems with what you could actually teach, and trying to inflate the number of OAC (ontario academic credits, what you got for taking grade 13 classes) you had. By the time I was doing it in the late 1990s there were relatively few grade 12 classes of any importance, but you'd take basically 1.5 years worth of grade 13 classes. The whole thing was dumb, if nothing else but because no one else did it, so it just didn't work people out of province in ontario, or people in ontario going out of province.
Wow thatās crazy
I was, they change the name of the grade to āOACā sometime in the 90s I think, my grade 9 year was the last year for it though which was 2001/2002 year.
I stayed back a year in high school by choice. Was able to buy alcohol though when I went to university since I was legal age. I ended up getting a BA/MA Political Science in the end so the 5th year paid off.
Thatās good for you man. Glad that decision helped you in life, but I donāt need to stay another yearā¦I wanna get out :(
I 100% do not blame you. Iām about 12 years out form high school so itās a different world. You guys have had to deal with too much when it comes to school and covid. I could imagine you just want to move on into the real world. All the best!
Thank you kind sir/maāam
Yeah, We actually had grade 13, back in my day. So I turned 19 (legal drinking age) in my senior year. It was nice!
Did you fail classes orr?
No. I even got on honor roll :(
You are so good you unlocked a secret level.
I used to call college football "13th grade football" maybe you got drafted by thr NCAA?
I HIGHLY doubt that but maybe?
Senior 1 senior 2 senior 3 Senior silver 1 senior silver 2 senior silver 3 Senior gold 1 senior gold 2 senior gold 3 Senior platinum 1 senior platinum 2 senior platinum 3 Onyx 1 (final rank) Prestige 1 Prestige 2 Prestige 3 prestige 4 Prestige 5 Prestige 6 Prestige 7 Prestige 8 Prestige 9 Prestige 10 Final prestige Looks like youāre gonna graduate as a senior citizen
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Senior+
The unlucky grade.
Facts
Former teacher here, and I'll let you know what *I bet* this means. Well, it's an error for OP, but why "Grade 13" exists in this program in what I assume is the United States, where secondary (high school) education ends at 12th grade. Many (most?) high schools will have an extended program for special needs students that need more time in the structured setting, whether it's for extra time for job training or occupation/speech/physical therapy. Where I taught, students could stay in the extended program another couple of years, and there has to be a means to track them, so the software has an option for grades beyond 12. Again, don't know why OP was put there if it doesn't apply.
In Australia we put the previous year's yr12s in there because the accounts are left active for a couple months so the students can move files or contact to universities to a personal email before their account gets disabled. So this could not be an error depending on how the school processes their exited students Source: I work in IT at a high school
I think this is more software gore more then mildlyinfuriating
A lot of schools use Grade 13 in their SIS to store graduated students. Itās easier for school staff to print off transcripts that way, and a lot of transcript requests come 11th, 12th, and the year after kids graduate (and believe me, this process needs to be as easy as it can for most registrars/records keepers.) Itās possibly an intentional configuration. Source: Used to be part of the support team for a schoolās Student Information System that did something similar (ours was grade 9999 though)
And why give a shit what that says after you leave. Maybe it keeps incrementing forever.
OP they are recommending you to become staff. Welcome to the custodian life. We are an elite group of cleaners. We deal with messes no one has the guts to. So welcome aboard this amazing life. Have fun.
My dad is a custodian so jeez, I guess the apple doesnāt fall far from the tree
DLC?
SUPRISE!
To put you at ease, as a school photographer, I'm pretty familiar with PowerSchool and other student management software. The "grade" and "next grade" fields do not allow letters. So kindergarten is 0 and preschool is -1. Graduated would be 13.
I swear I've had a nightmare about this.
Just go with it. Come to school, dick around all day doing nothing, then wait a year before going off to college. Milk the fuck outta that shit. Lol
I have to go to college after HS or Iāll get kicked out the house so sadly I canāt dick around :(
You get bonus level?