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Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :

Our school district has adopted the Small Schools Concept for the high school starting next year. The idea of this is to create three seperate small schools all housed with in the main building. Each school will focus on a different strength. Their is the multiple intelegence school, the project based school and the performance based school. Extra curricular, clubs and groups will all be shared as well as things like prom and social events. The idea is to build a stronger community within each school so that the kids have more contact with fewer people.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it really work very well?

Here is a link to the vision statement. It's kind of long but you can get the idea.

Vision

Here is a link to the main page about everything else involved.

Home page

[ March 15, 2004, 02:41 PM: Message edited by: beatnix19 ]

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

The IDEA seems okay. But I wonder if it's even posible to make that work. Not to mention that I can't even begin to guess what problems it could cause.

Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :

No experience with it, but I *like* the idea of smaller schools, as long as the quality of education is not lost.

I don't know what "student-centered" means, though. I'd be worried about that part of the vision, just because most kids already think they're the center of the universe -- they don't need any further confirmation of it. I'd rather see it be "education-centered". [Smile]