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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A student also said not to grandfather middle school students in. If you came to Longfellow in 7th you haven't been able to make real friends virtually, so just send them to Cooper next year and off to Langley.[/quote]

Seems like the should be able to cope with allowing the 6th graders the option the option... though if it was me in retrospect I'd agree with that student, not just because of the virtual year, but more broadly for me personally having continuity of my peer group from MS->HS was more important than from ES->MS.  MS we had whole batches of kids from different ES coming together and reforming peer groups and cliques and so on that were no longer tied to their home ES, so it was kind of like a whole new world anyway and everyone was making new friends... whereas from MS->HS if you make the switch you're one of the ONLY new kids and the peer groups from MS were already established. In HS those who came in from outside tended to find one group to belong to and that was it, whereas the majority of kids from MS had more of a mix as peer groups shifted through MS and thus tended to have more cross-group relationships if they had one primary/core set of friends. I'm generalizing, and I'm sure some would disagree, but I think for the majority (not all) kids, that shifting schools ES->MS is better and easier than shifting MS->HS.[/quote]

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