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OK, we just bought a home in Sunset Oaks in Holly Springs and will be closing/moving the 1st weekend in June. We're coming from a very rural VT location (single K-12 school in our town).
We have 3 kids. One just finishing 5th grade, another finishing 3rd grade, and another who'll enter kindergarden this year.
My questions are about schools, year-round vs traditional really. I found the year round school calender at wcpss.com here: http://www.wcpss.net/Calendars/2010-...nd_2010-11.pdf
but there's no designation for when a particular school year starts so I'm confused....In a traditional calander for instance my oldest would be entering 6th grade this Fall, but for a year round school does anyone know when the particular "tracks" start a new school year?
Does anyone have any comments on year round vs traditional calender schools? Or any comments on the specific school assignments for our address? Our schools are listed as:
elem year round = Middle Creek
elem traditional = Swift Creek
middle year round = West Lake
middle traditional = Holly Ridge
In year round, everyone moves up to the next grade the first time they go back to school after July 1 - this year I think track 1, 2 and 3 start on July 11. Track 4 starts approx. 3 weeks later. For kids on tracks 2 and 3, this means they have one week off between grade levels.
Sorry I don't know a lot about the specific schools you're asking about. A lot of people (myself included) love year round, but others don't like it.
Year round can be pretty cool if your kids are on the same track.
Here's my first reaction...
There are no year round high schools (right???someone please correct me if I'm wrong). So when your 5th grader goes to HS in 3 years, I would think it would be a pain to have your younger kids on Year Round and your oldest on traditional...when would you ever have time for a vacation?
Something to look into and think about while you explore your options.
Year round can be pretty cool if your kids are on the same track. .
Yes tell me about it! We suffered through two kids on different tracks this entire year. Thankfully we were able to get both on the same track for next year.
Year round can be pretty cool if your kids are on the same track.
Here's my first reaction...
There are no year round high schools (right???someone please correct me if I'm wrong). So when your 5th grader goes to HS in 3 years, I would think it would be a pain to have your younger kids on Year Round and your oldest on traditional...when would you ever have time for a vacation?
Something to look into and think about while you explore your options.
There are not year round high schools because of sports, and I think they way they do block scheduling, etc. So, yes, parents have to make a decision when their child goes to high school, if their other children are in year round school. My girls are third and first grade and we are in year round, but have already started discussing what we may do about high school. The options are have the kids on different schedules for two years, or simply change to traditional when our youngest is going into middle school and then we will have only one year of different schedules..
I have friends who simply started traditional so there would not be and need to change things later, but my kids (and I) love love love year round.
Middle Creek Elem - my kids went to this school for several years and loved it. However, I know they have a new principal who started about a year ago. Haven't heard much good or bad about her though. Loved the teachers on track 4 (except 4th grade)
West Lake MS - heard good things about this school. They too have a newish principal that has made things much better. Friends of my son go to this school and don't complain.
Holly Ridge MS - this is our base traditional school but I opted for our YR MS option, Lufkin. We toured this school and it seemed huge and overwhelming after touring Lufkin. However, I don't have any bad things to say about this school. My neighbors kids all go to this MS and they seem happy with it.
Year round can be pretty cool if your kids are on the same track.
Here's my first reaction...
There are no year round high schools (right???someone please correct me if I'm wrong). So when your 5th grader goes to HS in 3 years, I would think it would be a pain to have your younger kids on Year Round and your oldest on traditional...when would you ever have time for a vacation?
Something to look into and think about while you explore your options.
THis is correct. There's a kid in my DS' class whose older sibs are in HS and MS and the mom pulled her from YR schools this year because the older two are on traditional now - the oldest by force (no YR HS) and middle schooler by choice.
Your 5th grader would start 6th grade in July or August 1 if on Track 4 as pp have mentioned.
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