Too dramatic for kids

When I read of this decision, I had my issues with it to but not for the same reasons, I wondered about 11 and 12 year old's (from grade 6) moving on to middle school where they will be surrounded by kids much older than them and exposing them to things that they are far to young to have to deal with.

The same applies to the tweens moving on to high school. At these ages, they are emotionally pliable and susceptible to outside influences and are (most, not all) ill equipped to handle a lot of it. In the lives of young people, a year is a long time. They change dramatically in short periods of time both physically and emotionally.

Virtually all of the kids affected must be in shock, having been preparing for the transition to middle and high school a year later than what they now are being told is the case. It’s traumatic enough transitioning from grade school to the bigger schools and having to do it a year early will be making some of them sick.

I wonder if any of the school trustees gave a moments thought to the emotional toll it is going to take on many of them? Shouldn’t the parents have had a say in this? Shouldn’t they at least have been notified that this possibility existed? Last thought here, portables suck.

Peter Haslock