• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      Generally not understood as such though. I would say common vernacular is more accurate to the intended meaning than the technical truth

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        11 hours ago

        I went to one school, K through 8. Called it grade school. But it was a private Lutheran church school.

        I think it depends on if you are talking private or public schools.

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          10 hours ago

          Sure, but my point was general consensus. For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll use the US. According to Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/06/us-public-private-and-charter-schools-in-5-charts/) 83% of k-12 students went to public schools. Many of our parents couldn’t afford to send it to private if they wanted to.

          This of course varies by country, googling for a few countries (Japan, UK, Germany) actually all betrayed my expectations,with higher public school percentages for primary schools than the US. They generally do have different grade structures though. Edit: for those 3, primary/grade school went to 4th or 6th grade.

          Personally elementary/grade school was up to 5th grade, 6-8th was middle, 9-12 high school. Technically I started school in Saint Vincent, in what I believe was a private school, but we moved back to the US when I was in 2nd grade going to third.