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[quote=Anonymous]19:09  -- I'm not reinforcing their "classroom cliques" -- they have 4 different classrooms at the school where most go, but there are two girls who go to a different school.... My girls are NOT clique-y.  But, I can see that happening if the group is mixed grade level b/c those who already know each other are more likely to stay together.  Do the 5th graders want to be the one who hangs with the 4th graders?  I think it's just normal that kids who have the same teachers/assignments/extracurriculars in common outside of GS will be spending more time together.  I will have 4th graders.  If a girl who is a 5th grader joins GS for next year do you think she wants to be the ONE 5th grader in my troop with all 4th graders?  No.  She wants to be with the troop that is all 5th graders (which already exists).  There is nothing wrong with that.

If there are only enough girls for one troop, then by all means put them together -- but if there are 15 5th graders and 15 4th graders, (who have already been separate for the reasons I mentioned -- the older group had met it's capacity and didn't want to take additional girls as brownies, so a new brownie troop was created and they were all the 2nd grade brownies --- it's just the way it happens)=== then they should be separate troops.  I stand by my position that single-grade level troops are best for everyone.[/quote]

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