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@sideone @rubikfrog
‘High school’? Since when did we become Americanised? Surely you mean seniors? 😄
My friends.
Maybe this is our chance to get rid of the tiresome Reddit trope of trying to catch people out in so-called "Americanisms" (that usually just ended up being different British dialects anyway).
Maybe this is our chance to be better.
Indeed. Also, the "Where are you from" thread highlighted that we have subscribers (Lemmys / Lemmies?) from all over the world, we should welcome everyone even if they spell something differently to you.
Lemmings! 😄
Ah, of course!
West midlands people call it High School, and did twenty years ago
It was definitely secondary school in the Coventry area when I was a kid. Mind you, that was a fair bit more than 20 years ago...
Not where I grew up and went to secondary school 20 years ago...
It varies a ton. I went to secondary school in the late 90s. 20 miles up the road friends were going to high school 🤷♀️
(North East, fwiw)
I've always known it as secondary school
TIL it's High School in Scotland and not in [edit: some parts of] England!
I went to (town) high school in south Midlands
Call it High School here as well - West Coast of Scotland.
Isn't seniors KS2 in primary school? Anywho, unfortunately quite a lot of places in the UK call upper/secondary school high school now
So I ended up down a bit of a rabbit hole... Strangely the council here in Edinburgh refer to the schools as "secondary schools", but the official names of all the schools is "... High School". Go figure. My school in Fife's official name ended in "High School" too.