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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think this is about play. In public schools, kids loose access to recess early on. In privates, kids have a chance to learn through play, have more chances to move their bodies, more P.E., and classrooms set up for them to engage in learning in different ways. When we toured a public school kindergarten class, we were surprised with how few toys were there and how little time kids had to exercise.[/quote]

It is about that for little kids. But for tweens, it's about not exposing them to things that are more appropriate for high schoolers-- basically sexuality in appearance and in media. Sometimes for religious reasons, sometimes not. Personally I do think it's nice to keep that stuff to a minimum-- you have your whole life to be an adult and think about adult things, and it's nice at 12 or 13 to still be a bit sheltered from dating and kissing and everything else.[/quote]

This was our experience at a Catholic k-8.  There were a lot of siblings in the schools, so the middle schoole and elementary age kids actually knew each other and interacted.  The school often paired middle schoolers with elementary age kids at school events, and middle school kids often helped the elementary kids with reading, etc.  It was lovely.  My kids had friends at our local public middle school and their tween experiences were nothing a like.  The Catholic middle schoolers didn't grow up as quickly.  The fact that our Catholic school had a strict prohibition on phones at school also helped. [/quote]

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