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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who’s part of pyle, I second the idea that the issue is lack of community. There’s just tons of people everywhere, and not a lot of bringing people together. The whole idea of teaming is meaningless if you don’t even end up in classes with the same kids anyway. And there’s so much unkindness. In addition to racism and antisemitism, the kids get away with a lot of homophobia, most of which is under the surface but kids see it. I think Nardi probably cares but has no idea what to do, is overwhelmed by the size of the school and probably feels unsupported by his teachers, who don’t have many nice things to say about him. [/quote]
agree, they need a ability tracking plus a pod system asap. my kid has 30 different kids in each of her 7 or 8 classes and then each class is 1/3 high/lo/average ability. makes for a mess for teaching, learning and finding good friends. everyone seems to resort to their ES friends at lunch. [/quote]

You keep lamenting the lack of ability tracking, but there is not ability tracking at any MoCo middle school except the magnets, so this is not an issue related to Pyle specifically. My two kids have had a different experience than yours with the team teaching approach - a number of kids are in multiple classes with them (and on a side note, that isn’t necessarily good when the kids are disruptive, etc so be careful what you wish for). Also they have gotten to know a lot of kids from outside of their elementary school and do eat lunch with a mixed group which relates to whoever has their lunch period (there are four, as you know). I have friends at a number of other area middle schools and they have similar complaints to yours so I really don’t think Pyle is worse (or better) than most other MoCo middle schools. [/quote]

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