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David, if you think a middle school model is the answer, think again. Many districts around the country are moving from a middle school model to a K-8 model, whole others are moving to a 'lower school-upper school' model. There is emperical evidence to support all three. But in the end, it doesn't matter. The single best indicator of student achievement is parental intelligence, while the second best is parental education level. RI ranks low in both when compared with other states in the northeast, so it should come as no surprise that RI's achievement test scores are second lowest in New England. And that's with most of the state having already endorsed your middle school position. So unless you can adjust parental intelligence, you're simply rearranging deck chairs, while leaving taxpayers with multiple schools at 50% capacity. LIke new math, phonetic spelling, open classrooms, and whole language, the trendiness of middle schools will fade. That is the cold, hard reality.

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