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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 8th grader is grumpy about this change too, but I don't get what the big deal is. If the whole grade was mixing together like last year, you still might not have ended up in class with your friends either. I remember this change mentioned at the end of last year (maybe at PTA or School Board meeting?) as a way for the Swanson teachers to be able to better focus on addressing the kids who were causing the problems. For example, Taser Kid would have been assigned to a team of teachers who could have come up with a strategy to address his behavior collectively, and maybe it wouldn't have ended with a taser coming to school due to all the missed warning signals. Swanson was chaos last year in the 7th grade, so I am happy for the additional structure. [/quote]

It is not a system devised in order to address the problem kids.
It is an academic system that facilitates teacher teams for collaboration, grouping kids for academic needs, creating a sense of a smaller community by attending most of your classes with some of the same kids, etc.
Don't blame it on taser kids.[/quote]

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