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Anyone have kids at a school with a "house" concept?

Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:41 am
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
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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?
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:44 am to
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 by Areddishfish
The Wild West
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:45 am to
I found out the other day that the Catholic high school I went to started doing this a few years ago.
Posted by DesScorp
Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:46 am to
Colleges were doing the house thing for years before JK Rowling ever put pen to paper.
Posted by MemphisGuy
Member since Nov 2023
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:47 am to
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 by concrete_tiger
Member since May 2020
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:48 am to
Yes, it seems to be pretty common and fun. Ie collecting pennies charity or whatever
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:49 am to
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 by tgrmeat
Member since Sep 2020
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:49 am to
My wife is a teacher and they do this. I've never fully understood what it is though.
Posted by WaterLink
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2015
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:50 am to
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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 by Dadren
Jawja
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:51 am to
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.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 11:52 am
Posted by Stexas
SWLA
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:51 am to
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 by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:52 am to
I bet the teacher to pupil sex ratio is pretty high as well
Posted by Jmcc64
alabama
Member since Apr 2021
906 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:57 am to
the school my kids('15 & '18) (and me) graduated from, started it about 3 yrs ago.
Posted by jamiegla1
Member since Aug 2016
7188 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:58 am to
thats how they did it in Little House on the Prairie. I always wondered how they all learned the same things
Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 11:59 am to
If my kid gets put in Hufflepuff we are changing schools
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George, LA
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:00 pm to
Do they use a sorting hat?
Posted by MemphisGuy
Member since Nov 2023
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:01 pm to
quote:

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 by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:10 pm to
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The houses meet together, earn points, compete against other houses, etc.


Why divide your student body?
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:11 pm to
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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 by 3nOut
Central Texas, TX
Member since Jan 2013
29730 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:12 pm to
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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