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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also have an ES that I've heard great things about, but kid hasn't yet started at. It splits into different MS/HS with the new boundaries, but ... and maybe I just don't get it yet because my kid is too young, is that really a big deal?

For me growing up, none of the friends I had in 5th grade were ones that I still had in high school, even without schools splitting. Things change so much over those years.  [/quote]

My kid is in first grade. As far as split articulation goes, I don't think it's horrible, but I do think during the transitions to middle and high school kids do benefit from having familiar faces there. In one of the proposed split articulations from the first set of options, my child would have been split from her (current) best friend for middle school. Of course, it's way too early to tell if that would be an actual issue when she starts sixth grade, but I can definitely see how keeping ES kids together would be more desirable. Not all friend groups stay the same but having some consistency can be nice (can also be bad for some kids if they need a fresh start socially so that's the flip side). The other issue which is probably very specific to our ES is that our ES has a dual language immersion program that they just started extending to middle school. If they did split articulation to middle school it would be disruptive to this program - I doubt they could or would continue the immersion at both middle schools or even one of them.

As far as ES boundary changes, I do hope my child's class isn't affected. It's very much a walking school and doesn't have any islands so hopefully that wouldn't happen. But I do understand that boundary changes are sometimes necessary and that my child would ultimately be fine, it just wouldn't be ideal. More broadly, it would be quite difficult to move kids in later grades into the school because of the immersion program. Not sure how ES boundary changes are phased in.[/quote]

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