The Ninja wrote:Um, yes. studies have shown this, and if you look through you books, it doesn't teach you much more than the last grade.
No, it doesn't.
I just WENT through 8th grade, and remember everything from 7th grade. The only thing that was relatively the same was English, and that was Shakespeare. But, if you're going to say that, 9th, 10th, 11th, and perhaps 12th grade English is the same.
It isn't.
Math was totally different. In 7th grade we didn't even touch Algebra, in 8th grade we dived right in, and now I'm off to Geometry. In history, there were two different things.
In 7th grade we learned about medieval times, spanning from Ancient China to the early New World Explorers. In 8th, it was from the New World Explorers (for about a week), to the Civil War.
Science was totally different. 7th grade was more in-tune with Life and things having to do with life, while 8th grade was physics related subjects.
You are wrong.