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Thanks, and should it be class or Class/grade or Grade? TIA

Posted By: BOS challenged on 2007-09-06
In Reply to: most of the time grades are Arabic and classes are Roman, but I'm sure there are exceptions to th - sassee

Subject: Thanks, and should it be class or Class/grade or Grade? TIA

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