Hi Grinity,
I like the ideas of independence, responsibility, consequences that you speak of. The school does a good job--I just had never seen it dig in right away with the new 6th graders like this year.
It's ok--I kept my mouth shut, though another woman on the board had been called with complaints and voiced her concern. The one thing that came out was that the real trouble makers were a couple kids, not PEGS, who are behavior issues. The principal addressed the big projects with the Master Calendar (so projects don't overlap) It always boils down to the 2-3 problem kids. They'll either figure it out and become good students, or they'll leave the school and go to the public middle school.
