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It's a charter elementary school with a multi-age satellite school right next door, Ponine. Enrollment in the multi-age department is optional and most parents choose the traditional campus. And since it's a charter school, we are able to keep our children (now only Todd) enrolled there no matter where we live. Our retiring teacher is the co-founder of the multi-age department (the other founder died in a bike accident last August).
Basically the multi-age program works like this: Todd's class last year was 2nd and 3rd graders. Everyone works at their own pace and the advanced students are free to work ahead. For example, a 2nd grade student who excels in math can work with the third-graders during math time.
Todd had the choice this summer to either a) stay with the same teacher he's had for two years, b) go with a new teacher, c) go to a school in his home district - Elk Grove Unified. Todd chose a and ended up with b.
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