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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It’s more wishful thinking on my part. We love our elementary school and wish that both kids have an extra year in it. But yes I recognize that 6-8 makes more sense.[/quote]
Kids start taking highschool classes in seventh grade.  It’s good to have a year prior to that where they can get used to being in middle school without it tanking their highschool transcript.  Especially since they got rid of grades in elementary school.  Also moving sixth grade to elementary school would limit the advanced math track since you couldn’t have pre algebra in sixth grade then.[/quote]

I think that this a problem, high school type classes jn middle school. It's way too much work and homework. [/quote]
I am assuming you don’t have kids in middle school or highschool.  The highschool classes aren’t any more work than their other classes.  They just are considered highschool classes and your grade matters a little more since it sticks around.  Kids don’t have to take highschool classes in middle school, but it’s a pre-req for things like going to tj or doing the in program. You can’t take ap calculus as a senior in highschool if you don’t take algebra as an 8th grader.  That’s a high school class.[/quote]

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