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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you against the Center?[/quote]

I’m not the OP, but I really wish we didn’t have to choose the center to get a non cluster model. The bus ride is nearly an hour, it feeds into a different high school than his base (so friends won’t stick around), and he doesn’t get to know the neighborhood kids (we moved here in 3rd grade)[/quote]

I think you're confused about what is and is not clustering. LLIV programs have ALWAYS been a mix of LLIV and principal placed LIII children. That's NOT clustering, it's just filling the classroom. Clustering is when a school doesn't have an LLIV classroom at all but separates out kids for advanced math.[/quote]

Sorry if I was unclear. I understand the difference. Our base school only offers cluster. I would have been 100% fine with a mixed level 3/4 class, and there are enough kids to make it happen—admin just chose cluster instead, so we moved our kid to the center. Fabulous academically, a bummer socially.[/quote]

Yeah, that is the issue I have with Centers, they are not good socially for kids coming from outside the base school. In our case, the kids who go to the Center are at an ES that will land at a different high school then the one their peers from the base school will attend. The kids who stayed at the base have a stronger group of friends in ES, because they live close by and are in activities together, and they take that group to high school. The kids at the Center don’t have a bond with the kids from the base school and their ES peers are at a different HS. They are starting from scratch. And they end up in classes with the kids from their base school any way because a high percentage of the kids at the base school end up in Algebra 1 H in 7th grade and taking the same advanced classes so it is not like the Center kids were accelerated past their peers at the base school.

So what is the point of the Center? What is the point of a strong cohort if they don’t socialize after school or do things together? Especially when the academics at the base school are pretty solid.[/quote]

This is unnecessarily dramatic.

1.  Enough kids move to centers to find friends from their old ES, if that's a priority.  My son is at a center and his best friend is his classmate from the old ES who also made AAP and moved to the center with him.

2.  The purpose of the center is not to provide socialization after school or do things together.

3.  You are altogether exaggerating the effect a few elementary years have on a kid's social life and school career.  They make friends all the time, even if they just met that kid.  Spending the first 3 years together is not a guarantee of lifelong bonds, and the absence of these years together does not doom a kid to loneliness.[/quote]

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