General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[plam]

We have a long history of copying American trends long after the Americans have concluded that the trend in question is not worth it.

Historically (going back 40+ years), the Catholic system was grades K-6 and grades 7-10 since provincial funding of Catholic education only extended to Grade 10.  One benefit of the 7-12 grouping is that the grade 7 and 8 classes can use many of the same advanced classes as the 9 to 12 classes (eg art, shop, home economics, science etc).

The thing about small schools is that, because they're smaller, you see more variance, and so you should actually expect more small schools to be in top-schools lists (but there should also be more small schools in bottom-schools list). My 7-11 (most schools in Quebec are 7-11) high school was like 600 students. I do think it feels a bit like a factory to have xx,xxx people in a high school.