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A comment on Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by unfamiliar on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:48AM (#13782238)
> "Year 7" is not high school in the US.

Maybe we could all agree to just use pupil age in these discussions, to avoid the international confusion between "year 7", "4th grade", "primary 6", "middle school", "6th form", and all of the other country-specific nomenclature.

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Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms by Veratyr on Friday March 03, 2017 @02:23PM (#13785450)
I don't think that's entirely reasonable in a discussion about schooling as curricula in different countries differ considerably. A 17 year old Chemistry student in Victoria, Australia might be learning about how to read NMR spectrograms and some common industrial chemical processes [0], a 17 year old Chemistry student in Texas, USA might be learning about the chemical processes involved in genetics [1].

0: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/chemistry/Chemistry...

1: https://www.kleinisd.net/users/0138/Chemistry_Scope_and_Sequ...

Different places teach different things at different times, so I don't think equating ages works very well.

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