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Is there anything to be said for another.. .class?

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    #32
    Treppen
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    I started school in the early 80s, so it sounds like babies was a loose arrangement that the younger kids went into if they were barely four, and the ones that were coming up on 5 went into proper junior infants. I'd imagine most schools wouldn't have had the numbers to run a separate middles class.

    I've heard of 'high babies'...


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    shesty
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    Yeah my OH went to a Dublin school....started age 4 and 2 months and he was supposed to have done a middle infants class but they didn't have the numbers that year.That would have been mid-80s.I had never heard of it myself before I met him but some places obviously had them.


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    #34
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    shesty wrote: »
    Yeah my OH went to a Dublin school....started age 4 and 2 months and he was supposed to have done a middle infants class but they didn't have the numbers that year.That would have been mid-80s.I had never heard of it myself before I met him but some places obviously had them.

    I'd say for some schools it was just a case of falling between two stools. Big schools with multiple classes in each year could afford to have a middles, tiny rural two teacher schools had four year groups in one room anyway so keeping a child in the junior room for another year wouldn't make a difference. Medium size schools with 1-2 classes per year probably didn't have enough for middles.


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