Talk:Form (education)

"N England"

 * A common understanding in N England...

Northern England? New England? This is not a common or standard abbreviation; I've been reading widely and heavily for most of 64 years and I don't recall ever seeing it. It might be fine in a private situation where the context is clear -- say in a personal letter, some usage like "It was great seeing you on our drive thru N England this summer" -- but not in something like an encyclopedia. --Thnidu (talk) 04:31, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis' The Abolution of Man which links here, has a usage of upper forms that doesn't seem to be adequately covered here. It seems to refer to either advanced classes or higher levels of education Hackwrench (talk) 23:25, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

incomplete
If first form is like American 7th grade, where is the link to the prior years of schooling and terminology for their terms? Thanks 100.15.117.207 (talk) 01:08, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Form in New Zealand
The paragraph "Another common identification for form, and one of the most common in New Zealand, is the number of the year they are in, followed by the initials of the teacher who takes the form class. E.g. a Year 7 form whose teacher is John Smith would be 7JS (or 7SJ or 7SM if there is already another teacher in the school with the initials JS). Alternatively, some schools use "vertical" form classes where pupils across several year groups from the same school house are grouped together. In this case, the numeral is replaced with the first letter of the house name (e.g. RJS for a Red House form class whose teacher is John Smith)." does not appear to be about Form, but about the use of "Year n" in New Zealand, and how different groups at the same level might be distinguished. Does this paragraph belong in the article? Unless someone advances a reason to retain it, I propose to delete it. HIXIH (talk) 09:38, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Popular culture section
Would anyone mind if I removed the #Popular culture section? It seems fairly obvious that many many books and other media will make use of the term and concept, and there’s no further discussion of how the concept might be important to these works, other than that some of them have a form in their title. — HTGS (talk) 20:30, 10 June 2024 (UTC)