This article, overall, really didn't convince me. It makes plenty of arguments as to why things are wrong in the "6-3-3" system but I wasn't sold that the way the grades are divided is the main issue. I went though a 5-3-4 system and guess what? I felt awkward in 6th grade, I felt awkward in 7th and the same for 8th. I think that no matter grades a middle school covers, its still going to be a strange and new time for the kids in it.
I think the main thing we know about what middle school kids go though is that their emotions and their actions are all over the place. Even more, there are always going to be kids developmentally ahead or behind their peers. Its too difficult of a task to perfect the middle school so I kind of see it as a non issue. I'm not saying we should stop trying to figure out how to help kids get though the hell that is middle school, I'm just saying we don't need to be having a debate over how to divide them.
Friday, February 27, 2009
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