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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fox Mill doesn’t have the AAP/GE divide. But JI (Japanese Immersion) / GE groups don’t mix well.  [/quote]

Doesn’t Fox Mill now have local level IV? How’s that working?[/quote]

Fox Mill is using the cluster method. My kid is in JI and in a class that did not have access to LLIV so I cant say how it is going. Right now, the kids in 4th and 3rd have LLIV, the kids in 5th and 6th do not. As I understand it, the 5th and 6th grade Teachers are actually using the LLIV curriculum with their kids even if there is not formal LLIV but it is hard to know how things are different.

Advanced Math does divide the kids into math based groups in 5th grade but it has been that way while we have been at Fox Mill. It doesn't sound like a new thing.

There is a JI/Gen Ed divide in the sense that the kids don't mix in specials until 6th grade. I don't get why they have not come up with a way of having a mix in specials before then but they don't. I have not heard much that sounds negative because of the split. Mu kid participates in Rec Sports and Scouts and has hung out with Fox Mill kids in JI and Gen Ed in those and there doesn't seem to be any tension or issues between the kids. At least, I have not seen anything. I wouldn't be surprised that there are some kids where the divide is seen as problematic but we have not seen it. Friends with kids in MS and HS said that they saw the Fox Mill kids hang out as a group in MS and HS so it doesn't sound like there is animosity between the groups but I have limited perspective.

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