title: Why is this basic if-else expression failing?
body: <p>This is my first post on the site. I am in my third week of coding class and have completed everything but this problem. We are using ZyBooks. I have completed everything but this participation exercise. It isn't graded; however, it is driving me nuts.
  We are asked to write an expression that will print &quot;in high school&quot; if the value of user_grade is between 9 and 12 (inclusive).</p>
  <p>Sample output with input: 10
  in high school</p>
  <p>This is what I have so far:
  I apologize if I am posting this incorrectly.</p>
  <pre><code>user_grade = int(input())
  if user_grade &gt;= 9 &lt;= 12:
      print('in high school')
  else:
      print('not in high school')
  </code></pre>
  <p>The code passes all tests until it runs input: 13. Then I receive this error:</p>
  <p>Output differs. See highlights below.</p>
  <p>Special character legend
  Your output:
  in high school</p>
  <p>Expected output:
  not in high school</p>