On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:50PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I'm a little confused here : In the american public education system > "K" stands for "Kindergarten" (ie 5-6 year olds) and "10" would be > 10th grade, or a high-school sophomore (15-16 year olds). Middle > school is grades 6-8 and high school is 9-12.
This is not neccessarily true, it varies from school district to school district. At my school district (Caeser Rodney District in Kent County, Delaware) we didn't have a Middle School and Junior High was grades 7-8. Surrounding school districts mostly had Middle Schools, but the grades varied from district to district. > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent) > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or > computers in general) work. I started out with DOS 3.3 in 7th grade, > and to tell the truth I didn't learn anything other than windows until > I started college (I had a brief glimpse of Solaris, but not enough to > understand that there was something other than MS and Apple :-)). I don't know about that, when I was in 3rd grade (1979) they sent the TAG kids to use a timesharing system at Delaware State College. I don't remember what system it was using (not UNIX, the commands were more verbose, ex. COPY instead of cp. Also I think I remember it being all capitals but I can't remember.) In any case we became fairly profecient on it. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE
