[Mark was here]

Middle Schools are just new age baloney.

K thru 6, Junior High is 7 - 8, and Freshmen belong in High School.

[Sherman Logan]

The old original basic school was 1 to 8, with a minority going on the high school.

Then they put in junior high of 7 to 9.

Then middle school of 6 to 8 came along.

Now they’re talking about going all the way to the original.

I believe a rational person would agree that such a change would be primarily a rearrangement of the deck chairs, and a way to project an image of accomplishment that doesn’t require the very hard work of addressing the intractable problems of modern education.

[WashingtonSource]

When I went to school in the Paleolithic Age, we had Grades 1 to 6 as primary school; grades 7 to 9 as junior high school, and grades 10 to 12 as high school. We had 4 Merit scholars in our small city high school in a red state. Back then we had devotions every day in grammar school, led by the teacher. Our high school had a Bible class and all school meetings in the auditorium began with a prayer. Sports events began with the National Anthem and a prayer.

[Amelia]

The idea of middle school was supposed to be that teachers there were uniquely qualified to address the social and emotional needs of adolescents, in addition to teaching them subject matter.

The middle grades degree seems to be rather more heavy on emotional development and less so on subject matter, although I know some very good middle grades teachers.

I think most 9th graders currently are too immature for high school (they tend to have more discipline referrals and failures than the other 3 grades combined, in my experience) and I'd rather see 6th graders back at the elementary school.

[bill1952]

>Middle Schools are just new age baloney.

POW! Right on, exact.

We had the most sucessful systems in the 40s, 50s, and into the 60s, but then everything just had to change.
I often wondered why before, but time itself is a cruel teacher.

>elementary school teachers who are opposed to altering what they consider successful programs in the schools.

There it is. Even those teachers see it as plain as day.
We can’t have success in teaching students, now can we?

How else could we so completely dumb down the American population?
Crap, even the SAT scoring was down regulated to maintain the illusion to parents that their children are as well educated as they once were.