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Old October 27th 03, 02:39 AM
Banty
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Default Bright 2nd grader & school truancy / part-time home-school?

In article , Ericka Kammerer says...

Clisby wrote:


Hmm...I can certainly see this as an issue, but I have
to ask how many elementary school kids socialize much outside
their classroom anyway? After a few years, obviously you have
friends in other classes in the same grade, but in my experience
it seems like socialization follows along classroom lines
regardless of the program kids are or aren't in.


Is it that uncommon these days for kids to go to neighborhood schools?
I would have thought socializing would precede school attendance.

Yesterday, I took my two children to our annual neighborhood Halloween
party and parade. My 7-year-old socalized with kids from her school (a
small private one), from the nearby charter school; from the regular
neigborhood public school; from one of the Catholic schools; and from
one other Atlanta private school. These kids know each other because
the live around here, not just because they attend school together.



My kids also know the kids in the neighborhood,
and those kids go to a variety of schools. I'm just saying
that whatever class or track my kids were in, their school-
based socializing would revolve almost exclusively around
their classroom, not on the school as a whole. There is
*some* interaction with other kids in the school but not
in the same classroom, but it's *very* limited.


This still doesn't make sense to me. Do they ignore the friends they have from
the neighborhood and scouts when they go to recess, or what?

Banty