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> Students in eighth grade are usually 13–14 years old. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_grade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_grade In case anyo
by thebruce87m 2y ago
> Students in eighth grade are usually 13–14 years old.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_grade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_grade
In case anyone else outside the US couldn’t find the actual age when scanning the site.
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- mattlondon 2y agoYeah I thought 8 years old was kinda surprisingly young to "wait" for!
- chris_wot 2y agoThis is clearly aimed at Americans only.
- kelnos 2y agoWell, "Wait for 8th or whatever the similarly-aged grade level is in your area" doesn't sound quite as punchy. This is applicable to anyone, anywhere, though sure, it's targeted at a US audience.
- yayoohooyahoo 2y agoThe point is that this website is not applicable to anyone, anywhere, since the core message is strictly US-only. If the authors were aware of this, they may have focused their message on, eg the children's age, which should be more universal.
- sph 2y ago"Wait until 13" is not much worse than "wait until 8th".
- thebruce87m 2y agoI think I’m missing your point. Would you rather I had not posted the age for people outside the US?
- chris_wot 2y agoNo, I'm saying the website is aimed squarely at those in the U.S.
- dpassens 2y agoIs this really that US specific? Ages 6-7 seems to be pretty common for first grade¹, which gives you 13-14 for eighth. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_stage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_stage
- thebruce87m 2y agoIn Scotland, the first year of school is Primary 1 We have P1-P7, then secondary S1 - S4, with S5 and S6 optional. > Children start primary school aged between 4½ and 5½ depending on when the child's birthday falls. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Scotland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Scotland
- vasco 2y agoPrimary 1 seems to be a pre-primary school type curriculum and you leave secondary school at the same exact age. So you reinforced the parents point, even your exception is pretty much the same except you call it P1 instead of nursery. From what I read, in most schools P1 activities are play based, many times there's no individual desks. It's basically kindergarten.
- thebruce87m 2y agoI think I’m missing your point- is your (overall) point that I should have known what age range 8th grade is in the US without looking it up? And that I should also know what activities happen in a US kindergarten?
- vasco 2y agoMy point is 6 years old is a good heuristic to use for "start school" age and even scotland is similar
- thebruce87m 2y agoI’ve had really strange replies to my original reply. I posted some information that I had to look up for the benefit of other people and now for some reason I need to say that school starts around age 6 in my country when my son started Primary 1 when he was closer to 4.5. Others are trying to say that I should somehow automatically know that most of the world uses the similar(?) age ranges. I don’t even know what age school starts at in other parts of the UK despite sharing borders with them. Maybe I’m ignorant but it’s never been information that I needed to know or retain. Was posting the age range of US grade 8 so controversial?
- Nition 2y agoWeirdly the site actually clarifies that they mean end of 8th grade at the earliest, so more like 14-15 I think.