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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle school kids at K-8 tend to be less quick to want to act like high schoolers (or what they think high schoolers act like), which tends to keep them younger longer. In our experience that has meant the boys are much nicer, but it’s silly to suggest that translates across the board to all schools or that middle schoolers at K-12 are conversely not nice.

In small private schools, one or two kids in a grade can totally change the character of the class as a whole so you are better off going somewhere that you know someone who can vouch for your child’s particular class there. There’s just a lot of variation.[/quote]

Yes, we are doing Norwood for middle school for this reason and happy with boy culture so far. FWIW, I think OP is smart to focus on this issue as school cultures do vary a lot. That being said grade cohorts vary a lot too so once you have schools you are choosing between I would talk to families with kids in the grade you are targeting (if the school includes younger grades so has an existing cohort, as was true for Norwood as a k-8). Ask them about them about social dynamics among boys, what problems have come up, how have families and school handled, etc. [/quote]

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