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Wow... what school is this, where everyone is years ahead?

• madaxe_again 9y ago
  King's Canterbury. Out of 700 pupils, there were about 20 one or more years ahead - I was skipped a few years when I was six, at a previous school, so just continued from there - similar for him, I believe. No idea how it is there now, I left 15 years ago. I had the advantage of having always been tall for my age, so mostly hid the fact that I was young - Alex, however, was a fairly small chap and I think suffered for it. Fond memories of celebrating my 18th at university, and the college bar being like "lol what, we've been serving you for a year".
  • arethuza 9y ago
    Hasn't that school been running for over 1400 years?
  • omot 9y ago
    Are the gifted students all in the same class?
    • madaxe_again 9y ago
      No, and oddly, kids who were years ahead weren't necessarily viewed as being gifted - just ahead. The scholars were the gifted (grafters, bluntly, rather than gifted) ones, and wore special gowns and got discounted fees. Rather than having a number of classes for each year, they operated a set system for each subject, so if you were great at maths and sucked at Latin, you could be in the top set for maths and bottom set for Latin.
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  • ksec 9y ago
    So the Shannon family moved to UK?