I understand MA has larger class sizes (about 600) and I'm wondering why they don't take a page out of Hillview's playbook and use this approach. Surely some high schools do it. Princeton and Yale do something similar with "residential colleges". Even Stanford GSB does it. So if middle school students, college students, and grad students benefit, why not high school students. Also, do the kids get iPads like they did at Hillview? Just wondering how big a change it is from MPCSD to SUHSD districts and schools. What was the transition like for your child?
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Transition from Hillview to MA
Original post made by Big Jim, Menlo Park: South of Seminary/Vintage Oaks, on Feb 3, 2017
I understand MA has larger class sizes (about 600) and I'm wondering why they don't take a page out of Hillview's playbook and use this approach. Surely some high schools do it. Princeton and Yale do something similar with "residential colleges". Even Stanford GSB does it. So if middle school students, college students, and grad students benefit, why not high school students. Also, do the kids get iPads like they did at Hillview? Just wondering how big a change it is from MPCSD to SUHSD districts and schools. What was the transition like for your child?
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Posted by Big Jim
a resident of Menlo Park: South of Seminary/Vintage Oaks
on Feb 8, 2017 at 3:33 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: South of Seminary/Vintage Oaks
on Feb 8, 2017 at 3:33 pm
I've been asking around and I guess the answer is MA administration has its hands full. When you move from MPCSD to MA high school, you turn in your personal iPad. MA then has 1700 Chromebooks, but they stay on campus. And you go from your smaller learning academy of 80 students to a larger MA freshman class of 600. Well most of you do, but 17% don't ultimately attend MA and pay for an independent high school.
