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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the idea. My kid doesn't transition well and with that plan he'd have to go to three different schools in three years and then another new school two years later. No way. Plus, they walk to school now and getting to Hardy will be a PITA and major change in our lifestyle. Avoiding that is why we live here.

A 6-12 school would be a much better plan.[/quote]

You are greatly missing the point.[/quote]

Then explain. As I read it, they are proposing that you go from your 5th grade school to Hardy for 6th then back up to Deal for 7th and 8th  then on to Wilson for 9th. That's  4 schools in 5 years, and that is nuts.[/quote]

You are conflating the, frankly, snowflake-y needs of your kid with the crushing, overwhelming wave of kids Tee'd up for deal and wilson in the next few years. It's like complaining about the quality of the sand in the sandbags used to stop the flood.

And btw, it's not crazy at all. Many school systems have elementary, middle, junior high and high schools as their feeder pattern. Or early elementary, middle elementary, middle and high school-- as they do in many parts of MoCo.[/quote]

Um, it's her job as a parent to not only prioritize her child's needs, but to extrapolate from them.  It's the same reason that parents of children with special needs are used as advisory counsel for children besides just their own.

Also, just because MoCo does it, that doesn't mean it's automatically a great idea.  Large swaths of MoCo are nothing to envy.[/quote]

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