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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With so many classes, do kids have trouble maintaining friendships from year to year? [/quote]

Yes.  For example, from grade to grade, my child never had more than 2-3 other kids he had known from prior classes.  This is even more true if RHPS is no longer grouping across grade level for math and reading (i.e. if kids stay with the same teacher all day).  Even in 2nd grade, he didn't have any other boys assigned to his class that he had been in class with before.

It was a pleasant surprise when transition to the upper elementary school which has about half the number of classrooms per grade, that DC finally had about 1/2 a dozen kids in his class that he already knew well from previous classes.

Also with such a large catchment area, many kids you meet and make friends with in class aren't really in your immediate neighborhood. Although CC/NCC/BES aren't that far apart, it's far enough that kids you meet in class aren't necessarily in walking or quick drop-off distance, particularly if you are arranging playdates that require rush hour pickups.

At the end of RHPS many kids (girls particularly, it seemed to me), were sad to leave their friends going to a different upper elementary.  But, it is nice that they will see each other again at NCC.

For us, the bus ride was really the main way our child met and made neighborhood friends.  The vast majority of kids at RHPS ride a bus.  [/quote]

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