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I distinctly remember reading a Calvin and Hobbes comic when I was a kid, Calvin and Moe were in the locker room, and they mentioned something about "math class". I thought it was weird that they had distinct classes in grade school, and I wondered if any real grade schools did that or Bill Watterson was just taking artistic liberties. (We never had to change for gym until middle school either)
5th grade. Our school system mid 1970s: 4 elementary schools feeding one public junior high school (7-8 grade) and high school. Two grade level teachers in elementary school of about 45-50 students per grade, of which one teacher taught advanced math, and English courses beginning in 5th grade. 6th grade they began a dual level science class.
First of all....LOVE the username. Second, "pyromaniac came to town and burned down the middle school". You had me at pyromaniac haha.
Yeah I suppose nowadays we should just say someone with mental illness. But this dude in particular loved BIG fires. He burnt town the middle school, an elementary school and a grocery store before they caught up with him.
I think my school district was experimenting with that at the time I was in school, as I've heard now that K-5th Grade is now totally self-contained.
3rd Grade - switched for reading and math (broken out by skill level)
4th Grade - switched for reading only (nobody changed classes/teachers for math, reading broken out by skill level)
5th-8th Grade - changed teachers for all subjects, though we were with the same group of classmates all day
9th-12th Grade - changed classes for all subjects
For me it was in grade school. In grade 4 we started going to music class down the hall on Monday and Wednesday. This was in it's own dedicated music classroom. Then on Tuesday and Thursday we had an art class in a room set up just for that.
By grade 5 we had a Gym class with the art and music class once a week in between the days we had gym.
In grade 6 we continued with gym class but on the other two days we had a handwriting/penmanship class where Palmer method writing was conducted instead of the music & art classes.
By the time of Jr High we started in our home room for a half hour each morning and then went to our different classes which wee in different classrooms.
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