Quote Originally Posted by ghost908
Does Primary School= k-6? If it does... I've was at three different schools. THe first one was a crappy as public school in VA where the teachers swore at us and called us idiots. That was k-1. 2-4 was a catholic school in VA which was a little better (No we didn't have nuns). 5 was a catholic school in Michigan which sucked horribly. I had this nun teach me history and religion (She had a finger cut off). It was absolutely terrible, these other two insane nuns ran it. 6th grade was a public school in PA which wasn't bad.
It's grades 1-6 or grades primary-6. As institutions they are called either primary schools (as in Ontario) or as mine were elementary schools (Nova Scotia-best part of Canada BTW). I went to 3 elementary schools, grade primary was at St. Catherines, 1-4 at St. Joesphes-A. McKay, grade 5-6 at St. Stephens. They were all public schools too. Being in the inner city as I was a kid all the schools there were built between 1900-1950. In those days they had catholic schools (named after saints) and protestant schools (named after buisness/political types). Hence the names, now-a-days they are named after where they are built. I switched around because of french emersion. Canada being bilingual my mom put all three of us into french emersion when the time came. When I was 5 (back in 1986) and going into primary the only one close to me was St. Catherines. And even then it was nearly on the other side of the city, I lived in the north end it was in the west end. But in 87 St. Joesph's-A. McKay started french emersion and there I went, as it was much closer. I switched again in grade 5 because my class at A. McKay had been getting smaller by 1-2 people per year since I started there, and after grade 4 they sent a letter home with us that the class was going to be 11 people next year and the regulations said that you don't hire a teacher for less than 12 non-special needs kids. I would have ended up going back to St. Catherines or some other place in the south end or down town, don't remember which. So mother and I decided to switch me out of french emersion (as a concequense my french sounds like a 7 yearolds ) and i went to the neighbourhood school St. Stephens. My brother and sister stayed in french emersion until high school though. Their french (especially my brothers) is way better than mine. Frenchmen (from France) have though my brother was a french-Canadian he was so fluent.