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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Okay, but I am telling you that it was presented in the meeting that they were bringing back the teams due to all the disciplinary problems at Swanson last year. Not for any academic reason.[/quote]

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