[Magdalen] Music memories

[Jay Weigel]

I think it's a great system. Middle schoolers are unreconstructed
barbarians on their best days, as I recently observed to my daughter, who
was bewailing some behavior of her hitherto perfect older son (now 12 and
in 6th grade).

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I think it's an excellent arrangement, and I know that there are public
> schools that have done this, as well.
>
> > On Dec 24, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 24/12/2014 04:10, Scott Knitter wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> And don't forget its sister school for girls. Kingsbury or Kingswood,
> as I recall.
> >> They've realigned the schools once or twice. Their current
> >> configuration, one of which makes me think of pickles:
> >>
> >> Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School
> >> Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Girls
> >> Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Boys
> >> Cranbrook Lower School Brookside
> >> Vlasic Early Childhood Center
> >>
> >> Looks like boys and girls are together except during the Middle School
> years.
> >> "The single-sex program on separate campuses in the middle schools
> >> accommodates the specific physical, emotional, and learning
> >> differences between boys and girls in the adolescent years."
> >
> > That is called the diamond system.  The reasoning is that by separating
> them when the hormones are raging both boys and girls are able to
> concentrate more on their work but also benefit from the cross-gender
> socialising when life is calmer.
> >
> > Roger
>