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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a kid, we had 7-9 and high school was 10-12.

Having seen multiple school systems, I appreciate keeping 6th graders with other elementary school kids.  They are big, some are adult-sized, but they're still little kids. Putting them with the 7th graders or 8th graders, they grow up too fast.[/quote]

My kids are in a K-6th, then 7th-9th system. Several of the 6th grade classes seem to be bored of the elementary school by that time. It looks like they are ready for more challenges, and don't really participate in the "little kid" activities at the elementary. Maybe the solution is that 6th-8th should do a better job of supporting the new 6th graders.[/quote]

What were they bored of? Maybe I was just a kid longer than most, but I would have loved 6th in elementary. Not a ton of homework, recess, halloween festivities, playing outside. [/quote]

My kid was definitely ready to move out of the ES method of staying with one class all the time (or majority), lining up to move thru the hallways and always needing to be supervised.  Changing classes in MS with a variety of classmates and teachers was a relief.  Recess was still desirables, but not a ES playground, or the behavior based incentives engrams and the reward choices at the end of the quarter-they were  more geared to the little kids and you could see the fifth graders were over it by midway through the year. [/quote]

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