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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These kids are being bused to a school which is not their home school. They probably do not know any other kid in the classroom when they enter HGC. 
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This varies. Our home school sent 8 kids my son's year--then clustered all the boys from that school in one class, and all the girls in another. (The way of dividing kids from home schools varies from year to year, but at our center, at least, they do seems to try to group kids who knew each other already. They also advertise their willingness to accommodate requests to be with one other child.) In addition, once there, we found that my child knew some of the other kids in the programs--from sports, summer camp, church, etc. All in all, there were at least 4-5 familiar faces in the classroom for my child at the start of 4th grade. Then they spend a lot of time at the beginning of the year helping kids get to know each other.

[quote=Anonymous]There is a real need for connecting with other parents for car-pooling, socializing, birthday parties etc.  There is a great opportunity to have a cohort of kids participate in extra-curricular activities.
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All the things you mention--carpooling, socializing, birthday parties--can be done with a simple class email list or school directory, or with general emails to the school listserv. For things like carpools/bus problems, especially, it makes more sense to write on a listserv to ALL parents on the bus route. That way you can catch 4th and 5th graders, as well as kids at nearby bus stops.

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