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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The child of a family we know stayed for 5th last year and they were surprised how happy they were with it, having heard the kinds of stuff mentioned in other posts here. They didn’t think that their child was repeating work, so maybe the school resolved that by last year. They said they actually felt like the small size of fifth helped their child get more attention and differentiated work, especially in math, where they break out the fifth graders to teach them alone, and there just aren’t that many of them. They were happy with the social experience too and said their kid became really close with the other fifth graders. Obviously YMMV if your kid’s close friends all get into charters and they don’t want to make new friends. But it sounds like both the social and academic experience can have some benefits. [/quote]

It sad when they’re selling families on the benefits of getting broken out to do on grade level math. Like, literally, they’re excited because they got taught 5th grade math… unlike the other grade level content that they didn’t get. Treating 5th as 4th redux while [b]charters are treating it as year 1 of middle school just puts kids behind the 8 ball[/b]. The only kids I know who have been happy in Brent’s 5th grade are the kids who were academically average/below average for demographics.[/quote]

Agree. I have a kids that went through Latin and BASIS. Kids will rise or fall to the level of expectation. The idea of leveling 5th graders down while the charters are demanding excellence is crazy. [/quote]

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