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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school pays lip service to mixing, but the reality is all students have to sit with their class at lunch, so they can't sit with friends in other classes.  On field trips, each class divides into groups from that same class, and they have to stay together, so no mingling there either (or on the bus, as kids have to sit with their classes).  They are mixed in specials and I think at recess, but that's about it.  It makes no sense to keep these kids separate.  They're missing out on friendships they would otherwise have made if they weren't segregated into separate classrooms.[/quote]

Every single elementary school in the county seats kids at lunch by class and loads the busses for field trips by class.

For the lunches it is a timing/scheduling thing based on bringing classes to the cafeteria together and collecting each class at the same time so the tables are scattered properly forcleaning and flipping for the next class of kids.

For field trips, keeping homeroom classes together is a safe and easy way not to lose kids along the way.

Those two issues would happen whether or not your school has AAP and has zero to do with keeping kids in different programs segregated.

You are creating an issue where there is none in these two specific examples.[/quote]

And you are wrong about the lunch issue - there are schools in which the kids are allowed to sit with their friends (among the same grade).  I haven't created any issue.  The issue is that the kids complain they can't visit with their other friends during lunch.  [/quote]

Name one elementary school. Our kids have attended schools all over the country and not one of them allows the kids to sit anywhere they want. Middle schools do but not elementary schools.

Given how crowded fcps elementaries are [b]I can't imagine any of them have the elementary kids sitting anywhere in the cafeteria and not by clasw[/b].[/quote]

I'm the PP and clearly stated [i]"among the same grade"[/i].  There was another PP who said her elementary school allows the kids to sit with their friends, regardless of class, [b]among the same grade[/b].  [/quote]

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