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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone tell me why MoCo has split articulation?  I can see a definition on MCPS but it seems like a practice that leads to a pretty awkward middle school experience.  Kids do not bother making friends with other kids who they know are going off to a different high school. It was difficult recruiting parents to invest their time in PTA and volunteer efforts because no one was invested in the school. It cast a shadow over the whole experience for us.
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It’s not ideal for sure but it’s not as bad as you might think. I went to Cabin John and then Churchill. At the time it was probably 65-70% went to Wootton and 30-35% to Churchill. I was definitely friends with a lot of people who went to Wootton and it was really sad to split up for high school but once a month or two of high school passed most people made friends with kids from the other middle school Hoover.

Where things would be really bad would be if say 20-30% or less of an ES went to a different MS. Or if a small percentage of an ES went to the same MS as the rest of their ES but then split up and went to a different HS and was maybe 10%-25% of a MS going to a HS.[/quote]

That’s what will happen in option 2 for my kids. It really makes me sad, especially since one of my kids will be in 10th grade. After having to deal with Covid and those social impacts, this feels cruel. Plus, they’ll go through the big adjustment at high school in 9th grade, only to have to adjust again in 10th at a new school?[/quote]

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