06-25-2012, 03:23 PM
Middle School in most Big Island schools is 6-8. At Connections we keep 6th in upper elementary and 7th & 8th are middle school, although we try to build bridges within our school between 6th and 7th. Because we are a small charter school we have that kind of flexibility, for instance our middle school English teacher has a core of students who meet with her at lunch a few days a week all year, and do extra reading and writing that earns them a semester of high school Language Arts credit. It gives capable students a way to be challenged and get a head start on High School. At our high school we have many students who take UHH or community college classes while still in high school, in fact to graduate it is required to take at least one class at a post secondary level. These are the kinds of things we could never do in a big DOE school, but charter schools can.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb