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On 28 November 2012 01:32, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:43 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email> wrote: >> >> Of course, [school] has other places as well, for subjects taught, grade range, and probably others which are crucial to being a school. > > I would hope that "grade range" would not be part of the argument structure of "school". That would be like adding "mother's hair color" to the argument structure of "human". In such a language, people with bald mothers would not be "human". And schools that dispensed with formal gradings (as some educational approaches would have it, I gather) would not be "schools". You seem to interpret "grade" as meaning "a letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work in a course, examination, or special assignment; mark. " (#7 at dictionary.com); I interpreted it as meaning "a single division of a school classified according to the age or progress of the pupils. In the U.S., public schools are commonly divided into twelve grades below college. " (#4 at dictionary.com). So you might have an "elementary school" with grade range something like "1-5", or a "junior high school" with a grade range of something like "6-8" or the like. mu'o mi'e .filip.