PARENTS TO GIVE VIEWS ON PLACING SIXTH-GRADERS MIDDLE-SCHOOL SYSTEM QUESTIONED.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Eastside parents will be asked if they think that sixth-graders should be moved back to elementary school elementary school: see school. and if Cole Middle School should be turned into a magnet school magnet school n. A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community. . The survey form, expected to be mailed out this week, will also ask parents whether they are satisfied with the curriculum - including music, art and the Gifted and Talented Education or GATE programs - and how they feel about school safety and discipline issues. ``As part of our strategic plan, we talked about exploring different school configurations,'' said Eastside Union School District Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
``They are our end user or 'customer' that we need feedback from,'' he said about parents. Among the ideas are shifting sixth-graders back to elementary school, creating schools for kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through eighth grade or converting Cole Middle School into a special school for science, technology and the visual and performing arts. The board last year approved a pilot program for sixth grade at Eastside Elementary in the 2005-06 school year. Fifth-graders had a choice of staying at Eastside or moving on to Cole Middle School for sixth grade. The program helped alleviate Alleviate To make something easier to be endured. Mentioned in: Kinesiology, Applied crowding at Cole Middle School, officials said. In February, trustees are expected to approve permanently making Eastside Elementary a school for kindergarten through sixth grade, starting in the 2006-07 school year, Riccio said. ``It allows (children) to stay longer at the elementary school,'' Riccio said. Often, he said, ``sixth-graders are in a transition stage and not quite ready for middle school.'' A decision on whether generally to reorganize re·or·gan·ize v. re·or·gan·ized, re·or·gan·iz·ing, re·or·gan·iz·es v.tr. To organize again or anew. v.intr. To undergo or effect changes in organization. the district's schools into K-6 or K-8 schools is several years down the road, Riccio said. A new school under construction, Columbia Elementary, is scheduled to open next fall for kindergarten through fifth grade, he said. School officials broke ground last June for the $15.3 million Columbia School, the Eastside district's fourth elementary campus. The 57,600-square-foot school, located at 27th Street East and Avenue J-4, will accommodate up to 800 students and will become the new home of staffers and pupils from Tierra Bonita Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
Tierra Bonita North now shares a campus on 27th Street East at Lancaster Boulevard with Tierra Bonita South. The two schools started out in 1991 as one, created to accommodate youngsters living in the housing tracts that sprang up in east Lancaster in the late 1980s. The school construction is being financed by a $15.5 million bond measure passed in 1997 by Eastside voters, along with state funds. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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