Adding a year in elementary school

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Anonymous wrote:This changed in the late 1990s due to space constraints. Honestly I think it was the canary in the coal mine about APS’ inability to build and allocate seats for their students after the idiotic decision to turn over school buildings (e.g. Madison) after the baby book waned. They’ve been shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic since.

This is silly. It is very common for school systems to have 6-8 middle schools.

It's not silly at all. In my area they willingly admit that they've put 5th and 6th grade in MS strictly due to space. Which isn't a very good reason imo.

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Anonymous wrote:I will say this too. Regardless of middle school or not, kids do need recess. I've seen many article that say play is crucial for middle schoolers too, which seems like a no brainer to me, that's how i grew up.

And that could be accommodated in middle school without keeping them all in elementary school.

Could it be though? Many ppl think due schedules/changing classes and lack of that it can't happen

Of course it "can." People just won't like how: lengthen the school day. Changing classes has nothing to do with it. Elementary students change classrooms for things. It's the length of each class period that's different when you get to middle school. So, either knock off a few minutes from every period or extend the day 15 minutes to allow for a 15-minute break.