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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 9:10:17 GMT -5
Because of my personal disability.
I was born deaf/hard of hearing and I started Pre-School/Kindergarten at age 4 took Kindergarten twice - advance each grade until 5th and took that grade twice because of my English. Advance to 6th Grade and went to Junior High 7th to 9th Grade without skipping a grade.
High (10th to 12th) School was no problem with me - English Improved and I graduated in 1978, went to Community College and earned two AA Degrees, took a Computer Class that lasted a year and upon graduation - Went to work for a leading Aerospace Company for 21 years and retired at 50 years old.
Been Retired for 6 years and never looked back.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 2, 2015 9:17:43 GMT -5
Agree with those who remember "grammar school," "grade school" and "elementary school" as interchangeable synonyms. I started at Seward Elementary (K-6) in the fall of '62, Truman Junior High (7-9) in the fall of '69 (I skipped fourth grade) and Wilson High School (10-12) in the fall of '72. These days, Tacoma has middle schools (6-8) rather than jr. high.
Cei-U!
I summon the old school ties!
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 2, 2015 22:12:42 GMT -5
NJ native.
Started parochial "grammar school" in kindergarten, went to the same school till Grade 8. It wasn't named that, and neither were the public schools, but it was the identification we used for both.
The public school kids, however, went to junior high in grades 7 and 8, but that was a fairly recent change when I was in school. Previously the junior high was grades 7-9.
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Post by zilch on Apr 3, 2015 15:48:34 GMT -5
When I was in school in St Louis MO, elementary was K-6, junior high was 7 & 8 and high school was 9-12. So... i ask the Saint Louis Question... where did you go to High School? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 16:03:13 GMT -5
Dunno if it will provide any answers you don't have already, but I attended Pre-school in New Jersey, and then we moved to Texas.
My Kindergarten was not a separate school, but was the 1st year students at the Elementary School.
Elementary was years 2-6
Junior High was grades 7,8,9 Freshman, Junior, Senior
High School was grades 10,11,12 Freshman, Junior, Senior
The year that I was supposed to go into 9th grade (ie: be a Senior) is when Texas made the change from "Junior High" to "Middle School"
the change was "Middle School" grades 7 & 8 Junior & Senior
High School grades 9, 10, 11, 12 Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
so that year, instead of being a Senior in Jr. High, I was a Freshman in High School (and a class came in as Sophmores in their first year).
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Post by berkley on Apr 3, 2015 17:22:47 GMT -5
When I was in school in St Louis MO, elementary was K-6, junior high was 7 & 8 and high school was 9-12. So... i ask the Saint Louis Question... where did you go to High School? Corner Brook, Newfoundland. "Nfld" is the old abbreviation for Newfoundland, the island part of the last province to join Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 5, 2015 22:58:58 GMT -5
When I was in school in St Louis MO, elementary was K-6, junior high was 7 & 8 and high school was 9-12. So... i ask the Saint Louis Question... where did you go to High School? i started going to Jennings Elementary in 3rd grade I believe, from our move from Minnesota. After that I went to Jr High and then 9th grade. Starting with 10th I went to West County Technical High School were I graduated from. |
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Post by coke & comics on Apr 16, 2015 2:42:41 GMT -5
I went to one school for K-8, so it never occurred to me to learn how the grades may split up. I refer to that school as my "grade school", "grammar school" or "elementary school" interchangeably.
I am aware some may called the later years "junior high", but I never did so.
I then went to a different school, definitely called "high school" for grades 9-12.
Then "college" or "university" for the next 4 years.
Then "graduate school" for the next... well, for a while.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 17, 2018 8:50:11 GMT -5
I was watching the episode "Night Call" of Twilight Zone last night. It was about a woman that was getting strange anonymous phone calls. I noticed on her phone was "K-5-(and then four other digits), which I assume was her phone number. Which reminded me in other shows and movies of that era, when people would use a talk to the operator on a pay phone they'd ask the operator to connect them to "Klondike" and then some numbers. Was Klondike a early "area code" for non local numbers? When or how long was this used? Were you alive for these types of phone numbers? All I can remember is a 3 digit area code for long distance phone calls.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 17, 2018 9:22:13 GMT -5
I was watching the episode "Night Call" of Twilight Zone last night. It was about a woman that was getting strange anonymous phone calls. I noticed on her phone was "K-5-(and then four other digits), which I assume was her phone number. Which reminded me in other shows and movies of that era, when people would use a talk to the operator on a pay phone they'd ask the operator to connect them to "Klondike" and then some numbers. Was Klondike a early "area code" for non local numbers? When or how long was this used? Were you alive for these types of phone numbers? All I can remember is a 3 digit area code for long distance phone calls. Helll-oooo! What a great, bone-chilling episode!  Very simply, the first two letters of KLondike equate to their position on a phone's dial. Thus, KL-5 = 555, the fictional (though not always) prefix used by film and television productions for much of the early 20th century. You can read more about the complicated history of telephone exchange names here: Telephone Exchange Names |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 17, 2018 9:35:00 GMT -5
I was watching the episode "Night Call" of Twilight Zone last night. It was about a woman that was getting strange anonymous phone calls. I noticed on her phone was "K-5-(and then four other digits), which I assume was her phone number. Which reminded me in other shows and movies of that era, when people would use a talk to the operator on a pay phone they'd ask the operator to connect them to "Klondike" and then some numbers. Was Klondike a early "area code" for non local numbers? When or how long was this used? Were you alive for these types of phone numbers? All I can remember is a 3 digit area code for long distance phone calls. Helll-oooo! What a great, bone-chilling episode! Very simply, the first two letters of KLondike equate to their position on a phone's dial. Thus, KL-5 = 555, the fictional (though not always) prefix used by film and television productions for much of the early 20th century. You can read more about the complicated history of telephone exchange names here: Telephone Exchange NamesLoved the days of names rather than numbers only for telephone exchanges. You always gave others your phone number citing the word, or at least the letters, too, as in "My number is "CEnter 9-3295," or "CE 9-3295." When I first moved to Massachusetts in the mid-70s, there was still at least one village in town in which you could call within the village by using just the last four numbers. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 9:37:14 GMT -5
I was watching the episode "Night Call" of Twilight Zone last night. It was about a woman that was getting strange anonymous phone calls. I noticed on her phone was "K-5-(and then four other digits), which I assume was her phone number. Which reminded me in other shows and movies of that era, when people would use a talk to the operator on a pay phone they'd ask the operator to connect them to "Klondike" and then some numbers. Was Klondike a early "area code" for non local numbers? When or how long was this used? Were you alive for these types of phone numbers? All I can remember is a 3 digit area code for long distance phone calls. I totally remember this. My first phone # was LU3-5689. The LU stood for Ludlow. The other exchange was LE(high). This was dropped by the time I got into 7th grade. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 17, 2018 11:17:03 GMT -5
I was watching the episode "Night Call" of Twilight Zone last night. It was about a woman that was getting strange anonymous phone calls. I noticed on her phone was "K-5-(and then four other digits), which I assume was her phone number. Which reminded me in other shows and movies of that era, when people would use a talk to the operator on a pay phone they'd ask the operator to connect them to "Klondike" and then some numbers. Was Klondike a early "area code" for non local numbers? When or how long was this used? Were you alive for these types of phone numbers? All I can remember is a 3 digit area code for long distance phone calls. Helll-oooo! What a great, bone-chilling episode! Very simply, the first two letters of KLondike equate to their position on a phone's dial. Thus, KL-5 = 555, the fictional (though not always) prefix used by film and television productions for much of the early 20th century. You can read more about the complicated history of telephone exchange names here: Telephone Exchange NamesIt was a good episode. The gal playing Miss Keene did really well in expressing both extreme of emotions that were prominent in the story. And the twist I did not see (and/or remember) coming. I thought it was going to be more like Wait Until Dark. Thanks for the link. Interesting reading. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 17, 2018 11:28:41 GMT -5
When I first moved to Massachusetts in the mid-70s, there was still at least one village in town in which you could call within the village by using just the last four numbers. Yep, I remember this; I grew up in a rural area of Oregon about 15 miles north of the capital city, Salem, and throughout the early '70s you only needed to dial (on a rotary phone, naturally) the last 4 digits to call anyone in the wider area whose number had the same prefix. That ended somewhere in the later part of the decade, '77 or '78, after which you had to dial all 7 numbers regardless. And yeah, I remember that episode of Twilight Zone. Very chilling. |
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Post by berkley on Apr 17, 2018 11:34:25 GMT -5
We had the 4-digit dial too, when I was younger. And I think ours changed to 6 digits in the early 70s as well.
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