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How old are schoolchildren?Is it depending on countries?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Is this what you mean?

How old are children when they start school and leave school?
Does it depend on the country?

Masanori Takaoka · Answer

YES.
Sorry for my terrible explanation.

Anonymous · Answer

In the US, the word "schoolchildren" would generally mean younger students, those in elementary school from kindergarten to around the fourth grade (approximately 5 years old to 9 years old).  By around the fifth grade (age 10) they're already too old to be referred to as "schoolchildren."  You'd then call them "fifth-graders."

Anonymous · Answer

The following applies to the US educational system (the British educational system is very different from the US system).

In the US, there is an optional pre-school for children from around 2 to 4. In some places, certain private pre-schools can be very selective and expensive, with parents going to extremes to get their kids into the "right" pre-school.

Kindergarten is also optional in the US. Generally speaking, the school year starts in September, and kids who have made 5 yrs. old between Jan. 1, 2015 and Dec. 31, 2015 would be entered into the kindergarten class starting in Sept. 2015.

School is mandatory starting with the first grade (kids who have made 6 yrs. old between 1-1-15 and 12-31-15 would be entered into the first grade class starting in Sept. 2015).

The next grades are 2nd (age 7), 3rd (age 8), 4th (age 9), 5th (age 10), 6th (age 11), 7th (age 12), 8th (age 13), 9th (age 14), 10th (age 15), 11th (age 16), 12th (age 17). In the US, school attendance is mandatory from 1st to 11th grade. Kindergarten to 5th grade is called elementary school. 6th to 8th grade is called middle school or junior high school. 9th to 12th grade is called high school. (In the US, 1/3 of high school students don't graduate.)

After high school kids might go to work, go to college, or go into the military.

Education is very egalitarian in the US, with the goal of getting everyone to attend a 4-year college. (Note: there is no rigorous college entrance exam like in Asian and European countries.) So, for example, if a kid did very poorly in high school and ended up not graduating, he might still enter a junior college or community college to take remedial-type, non-credit type courses that would prepare him to take credit college courses.

Fivejedjon · Answer

AnonymousEducation is very egalitarian in the US

So you mean the children of the rich and powerful go to the same schools and colleges as the children of the poor?

Anonymous · Answer

In the US, it is possible that a kid of a multi-billionaire and a kid from the projects (state-owned housing) might attend the same schools (although rich kids generally tend to go to expensive private schools). For example, if the billionaire parent made it a point to send his kids to public (state-run) schools (this has actually happened). The kid would attend kindergarten through 12th grade in a public school, and then go to a state university, rather than a private university. (Note that all schools in the US generally use the same textbooks, and at the undergraduate and graduate level, state universities in the US are actually superior to private universities - again, the egalitarian nature of education in the US - so the billionaire's kid is not missing anything by going this route.)

Another way this could happen is if the kid from the projects was very bright and impressive. Then the best private schools would make it a point to accept him on full scholarship, and he could go from kindergarten to 12th grade in the most expensive private schools, where his classmates might be the kids of the richest people in the US. Then the most expensive private universities would also make it a point to accept him, again on full scholarship.

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