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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have twins in 7th (middle school starts in 6th) and so far, so good. Our middle school is fed by three elementary schools so they know about 1/3 of the kids from elementary school but also knew or recognized many many others from sports and activities (little league, karate class etc). Even though it is a large middle school. So far the only issue has been multiple lunch periods- for example my son somehow ended up knowing NO ONE in his mixed grade lunch this year! He was so sad about that- just bad luck. But after a week or so, kids tend to adjust and now he has made a few friends at lunch that he hangs out with after school (along with his old friends). Both kids miss “fun” at school, as there is far less of that (no recess, class parties, social time etc). They do, however, have more freedom to arrange hanging out with friends on their own now, so they do that.

Academically mine have done fine. Make SURE you go over grades with them often, so you are not surprised out of the blue at the end of the quarter. We go over grades weekly (in the parent app) and if an assignment is missing I make the KID handle it (email the teacher himself/herself)- sometimes something just didn’t get graded, or sometimes the kid didn’t turn it in etc. but I make THEM handle it and ask the teacher for makeup work or turn in late for half credit  etc. If they are doing poorly in a class without realistic explanation for more than a short time, they lose privileges until the situation is rectified and grade brought up. But that has only happened once or twice (once they saw I meant business).

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This is what I hated about MS too. Noore fun, it's like ppl think middle school kids don't deserve to have fun.[/quote]

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