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Anyone have kids at a school with a "house" concept?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:41 am
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:41 am
Was reading about this earlier today. I had not heard of this before.
Apparently some schools have moved to a house system. Kids are asigned to a house - the houses cut across all grade levels. The houses meet together, earn points, compete against other houses, etc. The older kids mentor the younger kids. Teaches are assigned houses as well.
Definetly seems like a riff off the houses in the Harry Potter series, but without the witchcraft, etc.
Seems to be a trend to mainly help with school culture and behaviors.
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Anyone have kids in a school that does this? Does it help with grades, discipline, etc?
Apparently some schools have moved to a house system. Kids are asigned to a house - the houses cut across all grade levels. The houses meet together, earn points, compete against other houses, etc. The older kids mentor the younger kids. Teaches are assigned houses as well.
Definetly seems like a riff off the houses in the Harry Potter series, but without the witchcraft, etc.
Seems to be a trend to mainly help with school culture and behaviors.
LINK
Anyone have kids in a school that does this? Does it help with grades, discipline, etc?
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:44 am to LSUFanHouston
My kids went to a school with a "Learning Community" but they were all in the same grade but for two years they had the same teachers and classmates, it was awesome!
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:45 am to LSUFanHouston
I found out the other day that the Catholic high school I went to started doing this a few years ago.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:46 am to LSUFanHouston
Colleges were doing the house thing for years before JK Rowling ever put pen to paper.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:47 am to LSUFanHouston
Westminster Academy in Memphis does this. Both the parents that I know who send their kids there and their kids seem to really like it.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:48 am to LSUFanHouston
Yes, it seems to be pretty common and fun. Ie collecting pennies charity or whatever
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:49 am to LSUFanHouston
Everything eventually comes full circle. This was how the old school houses were. Every kid, no matter age, was taught in the same one-room school house.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:49 am to LSUFanHouston
My wife is a teacher and they do this. I've never fully understood what it is though.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:50 am to LSUFanHouston
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Kids are asigned to a house
Randomly? Or is there some kind of sorting hat ceremony? Like some kind of personality tests or grades or extracurricular interests?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:51 am to LSUFanHouston
Makes sense to me. It actually mirrors more closely the type of environments they’ll work in when they get to the real world where they’re on teams with colleagues that are junior and senior to them.
You get mentoring from senior colleagues and you get to mentor younger ones. Best way to learn something is to get good enough at it to teach it.
You get mentoring from senior colleagues and you get to mentor younger ones. Best way to learn something is to get good enough at it to teach it.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 11:52 am
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:51 am to LSUFanHouston
Our Catholic HS implemented one a few years ago based on Saints as in the St Augustine house and the St Catherine Drexel house. The results from my perspective are mixed. It’s definitely built some community were there wouldn’t have been before but the group activities time take effort and planning on the part of teachers and coaches that are already overloaded so sometimes they mail it in. I think it’d be more effective if they gave the students more ownership of the process.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:52 am to Dadren
I bet the teacher to pupil sex ratio is pretty high as well
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:57 am to nicholastiger
the school my kids('15 & '18) (and me) graduated from, started it about 3 yrs ago.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:58 am to LSUFanHouston
thats how they did it in Little House on the Prairie. I always wondered how they all learned the same things
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:59 am to LSUFanHouston
If my kid gets put in Hufflepuff we are changing schools 
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:00 pm to LSUFanHouston
Do they use a sorting hat?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:01 pm to jamiegla1
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thats how they did it in Little House on the Prairie. I always wondered how they all learned the same things
It's just for "homeroom" and what not... they still have individual grades, classes and so on...
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:10 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The houses meet together, earn points, compete against other houses, etc.
Why divide your student body?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The older kids mentor the younger kids.
Not sure how it's structured, buy my son's school does this. He's in kindergarten and the older kids come in and help them with projects once or twice a week. Whenever I pick him up, a lot of the upper grade kids know his name, say good bye to him, and he says they are all really nice. Compare that to my school experience of younger kids avoiding kids in the upper grades for fear of bullying and it seems to be working.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:12 pm to LSUFanHouston
quote:
Apparently some schools have moved to a house system. Kids are asigned to a house - the houses cut across all grade levels. The houses meet together, earn points, compete against other houses, etc. The older kids mentor the younger kids. Teaches are assigned houses as well.
Definetly seems like a riff off the houses in the Harry Potter series, but without the witchcraft, etc.
our christian Classical school does it. My kids are in Wilberforce. Others like ours have Augustine, Lewis, Elliot, Boenhoffer, Spurgeon, etc. as houses. There are prefects like Harry Potter.
creates cool dynamics where older kids are hanging out with younger kids throughout the year and doing service projects etc.
there is a house cup and last week they had their field day. my oldest is an officer and as a junior spent the day hanging out with 5th and 6th graders and leading them around and cheerleading them.
lot of annoying things about christian schools where they have dumb rules to have dumb rules (those perfectly pressed khakis ARE NOT Land's End!!,) but Houses is one of my favorite traditions.
main thing it helps with is younger kids have upper classmen they've known for 4 years when they show up at the HS level.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 12:20 pm
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