MCLC: Shanghai 1940s middle school (1)

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: ted huters <thuters at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: Shanghai 1940s middle school (1)
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Don't really know what "S. M. II. B." means, and have no idea what the "S.
M." stands for, although I suspect it is short for the name of the school.
When I was a kid in school in Hong Kong in the late 1950s, the "forms"
(i.e., grades) went from I to Upper VI, and within each form there was a
division by student test score, thus IA was the top section of Form I and
so on; therefore "II. B" might stand for "intermediate section of Form
II." This system seemed ubiquitous in all Hong Kong schools, although the
gradings never went below "C" (if you were below that, you weren't
admitted to the school).

If the Shanghai school was one under British influence this may well be
the answer, and, after all (it chills me to say) the late 1950s is not all
that much after 1947.

Ted