Beginning in August, Westminster 8th grade chairs made a decision requiring Homerooms to socialize with students of the opposite gender every Friday during morning homeroom. Homerooms are split and grouped in pairs to spend the 15-minute period together. Homeroom connection was developed to help students interact with a larger variety of people and break apart the familiar clique normality in the middle school. But the homeroom timeframe, along with the already awkward 8th-grade mixed locker commons, has sparked controversy around the 7th to 8th-grade social transitions being awkward and somewhat forced. Here’s what some of our 8th-grade students think.
Students React: Will Homeroom Connection Bring Boys and Girls Together?
October 5, 2023