Talk:Fifth grade

Merge them all

Having a separate article for each grade doesn't really make a lot of sense, and a single article would do much better justice to them all. Some advantages of merging:

• We could have one article for the US system, one for UK system etc, rather than each article attempting to cover generalities across very different systems.
• The repetetive "students in this grade tend to be aged X" could be avoided.
• A standard format for information could be easily managed.
• Some actual references might be found and used ;)
• "Grade 5" could become a list of pointers to all the differetn grade 5s that exist, like grade 5 in rock climbing, in music, in different years etc.

In short, "fifth grade" would make a great section in an article about the US elementary school system (pretty much what the article is currently about), but it makes a very poor article by itself. Stevage 06:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

This seems like a sensible proposal to me. The current system is not helpful for understanding anything but the US system. Much better to have a structured article for each nation covering their respective grade/year systems. Tafkam 16:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm reviving this -- it's still an issue, 15 years on. It's fascinating as a fossil from the early years, when Wikipedia was still figuring how to wiki. If it was awkward back then, time has only made it more so. Miyo0i (talk) 05:52, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

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Proposed merge with Year Five

Much of the content about the specific countries is already covered in the fifth grade article. There is no reason why they should be separate, even if they have a separate name. "Year 5" is mentioned in the fifth grade article and that is a more complete article. For not all the countries in the fifth grade article are called "fifth grade" either. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 04:41, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

No, this article is just a stub, but it would be inappropriate to merge this stub with Year Five because the numbers do not correspond in the main usages. Would it not be better to redirect to general articles about educational grades and years where a less confusing comparison can be made? Dbfirs 07:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)