Re: pinhole Middle School Curriculum

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From: David Fairman (thefairman@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 14:35:35 PST 

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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 14:35:35 -0800 (PST)
From: David Fairman <thefairman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: pinhole Middle School Curriculum

Ben-
I work at Bowditch Middle School in Foster City...part
of the San Mateo-Foster City School District. We give
6th, 7th, and 8th graders a full year of science. I
believe that the other middle schools in our district
do the same.

-David Fairman

--- BenP <bpitt@n2.com> wrote:
> Hello pinholers,
>
> This message is for people who are teaching in
> middle schools, or who know how your district runs
> the middle school science program. Specifically I
> want to know if your district gives the students
> full years of science, or less than full years of
> science in the 6th, 7th or 8th grades.
>
> Our dilema is this: For several reasons we have, for
> many years, had a program where our sixth grade
> students receive only 1/2 year of science. (They
> receive full years in seventh and eighth.)
>
> We in the science department feel that a full year
> is important, warranted, and necessitated by the
> standards, but we realize that we don't really have
> data on what the general practice is.
>
> I'm asking for information on whether other schools
> have 1/2 years of science in sixth grade (or 7th or
> 8th!). If you know your district's practice, please
> let me know. I think I'll just start with the
> following information:
>
> 1. 6th grade: Full year or Half year
> 2. 7th grade: Full year or Half year
> 3. 8th grade: Full year or Half year
> 4. Name and location of district
>
> Or if you have an address or contact that would have
> this information for Peninsula, or Bay Area schools,
> I'd like to know that, too.
>
> Thanks for any information you send.
>
> Ben Pittenger
> Cunha Intermediate School
> Half Moon Bay
> bpitt@n2.com
>
>
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