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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Again. The homeroom class should be mixed and that homeroom class should go to lunch and recess together. I don't see any reason why this can't happen. Make it a scheduling priority like so many other schools do.[/quote]
Not all schools employ home rooms.  Our base school only used them for sixth graders.  [/quote]

Exactly. I think this needs to be changed to ensure kids are mixed for lunch and recess. Most schools do use a homeroom class for this reason. There's no reason I see that the other schools can't.[/quote]

Most schools do not employ homerooms during elementary school.[/quote]

My kids have attended three FCPS elementary schools, and all employed homerooms.  They switched classes for every subject, but homeroom was always fixed.[/quote]

That's nice. [b]My kids have attended five FCPS elementary schools (three base without LLIV and two centers), and none employed homerooms[/b]. They also did not necessarily team teach or switch classes for subjects. FCPS is a large system, and the schools do vary quite a bit, and also change as principals and teachers come and go. We've gone to mostly the poorer elementaries in the county, on the low side in scores, and found the people a lot more low-key and pleasant, whether they're in the AAP center or gen ed. I'd felt a bit sad that we couldn't put our kids in the best elementaries, but considering how bitter, grim, entitled, and status-hungry you lot at the highest SES schools are, I'm glad not to be part of that. We parents hang out as our kids take part in activities, and no one discusses who's in what program. That's considered gauche and divisive. Maybe the biggest problem at some of these AAP centers is you, the parents. ALL of you. [/quote]

Re: the bolded statement - what on earth does this mean?  Were your kids not assigned to Mrs. Smith's class or Mr. Brown's class at the beginning of the year?  Did they not look at the class lists to see which friends were in their class?  That's called a [b]HOMEROOM[/b]!  Not sure why you're refusing to get this.[/quote]

In most elememtary kids homeroom is the same teacher who teaches the kids all of their subjects except for specials and perhaps math.

PP wants a separate mixed homeroom (not with their assigned teachers for the core subjects) so the kids can socialize.  And she wants it during lunch so they are assigned to eat with those kids instead of the kids they have class with.

That "homeroom" is not the same as the ten minutes or so of morning meeting in Mrs. Smith's class every moring before Mrs. Smith moves the kids into reading time. [/quote]

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