Bubbles starts fifth grade next week – my how the time has flown!
He’s suiting up for football practice. This year he graduates to tackle football (instead of flag football). Before I know it, he’ll be all grown up and playing in high school.
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 
is fifth grade the first year of what we call senior school? England has begun copying the US system but when I was at school it was completely different.
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I’m not sure – how old are you when you enter senior school?
Fifth graders usually start the year at ten years old. It’s generally the last year of elementary school, with middle school comprising 6th-8th grades and high school 9th-12th. Some schools do it a bit differently, tacking 6th grade onto elementary and 9th grade onto middle school, but that’s how they did it when I was in school.
Now they’ve gone and screwed everything up in our school district. Our district is comprised of two towns, and each town used to have its own elementary school (K-5) (the middle school and high school were shared). Now, each town has a K-2 program, but they bus the 3rd and 4th-graders to one town while bussing the 5th graders to the other, which makes no kind of sense to me. They said it would save money, but I fail to see how.
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In my time it was so simple: Infant school, then junior,school:1st to 4th year. Then senior school, 1st to 5th year leaving at seventeen.
Glad I’m old and past it.
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Yeah, I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with all the tests my kids have to take. We used to do standardized testing once a year; now they seem to do it every time you turn around.
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I remember. My daughter was studying so hard for exams she never hand any time to learn.
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It’s the same for my kids. *sigh*
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Kids grow up fast. It took a while for me to accept that my little sister was no longer 9 yrs old but a teenager.
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Bubbles will be 11 in just a few weeks. The first time you have a kid hit double digits in age, it’s hard. And he starts middle school tomorrow…That’s just as hard…and a little bit weird because he’s got a few of my old teachers, though he had more of them in elementary school.
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Yh! That is weird. Those teachers have been in it for a long time!
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His elementary teachers have – I think a lot of them are due to retire soon. But the middle school has mainly new(er) teachers that I didn’t have, and I think it’s more or less true of the high school teachers, too. His best friend’s mom was my high school chemistry teacher, though, and it’s definitely weird interacting with her on a social level. No matter how many times she leaves messages with her given name, her name will always “Mrs.” in my book. 🙂
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LOL! I know that awkward feeling. Then It kinda feels like either they aren’t ageing fast enough or you had kids early. I like to think its good medicine!
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In my case, I did have kids early. But I felt the same sort of awkwardness with my old fourth grade teacher, who served as my sponsor when I joined the Catholic church. She got a kick out of my refusal to call her by her first name.
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