[etni] Re: Censorship on ETNI

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Interesting (what you write below). In Toronto we went till 3:30.
English Lit and English Comp were two different subjects and were examined 
separately. In Grade 13 (which no longer exists in Ontario) I took both 
Chemistry and Physics. I took Latin and French as foreign languages and one 
year I took German as well. Phys Ed was not emphasized like in America and 
we had two classes per week. I took Analytical Geometry and Trigonometry as 
separate subjects in the same year. Back then Ontario had province-wide 
Grade 13 exams so everyone was tested with the same exam on the same day. 
Entrance exams for university were not required since there was a uniform 
testing procedure across the province for Gr. 13 finals.
Ahhhhh, nostalgia. Where can you find Latin taught today in N. America?
BTW, I spent the last half of Gr.12 in Los Angeles in 1959. Talk about a 
breeze after high school in Canada. I could almost sleepwalk through school 
and get top marks. I almost lost my year when we returned to Toronto but my 
excellent marks throughout high school in Toronto was my saving grace and I 
was allowed into Gr. 13.
Gary/Gershon
Calgary, Canada

>When I went to school, in the '50's and '60's in New York, we had a 6 hour
>school day (9am-3pm), and that included lunch.  In high school we were
>restricted to a maximum of five, sometimes 4, academic subjects: English,
>Math, science, Social Studies and a foreign language.  The sixth hour was
>divided between sport, health and study hall.  The Jewish schools had much
>longer days, because they had the religious subjects.
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>The thing I would reform here would be to combine history, ezrachut,
>geography into Social Studies and Literature, grammar and composition into
>"Hebrew."  The kids have too many subjects for too few hours each and no
>perspective.  English should start later and be 5 hours a week until the
>12th grade.  Also taught in homogeneous hakbatzot.
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>Batya
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