Are there enough students at each age to form an adequate peer group for social development?
Bowman is a community. As in all communities, relationships among students develop for different reasons. Some students share interests or similar abilities. Some students forge relationships by helping one another. Still other students work together in the classroom or play together on the soccer field. Just like the “real world”, age has little to do with relationships at Bowman. Consequently, social development at Bowman is not a product of a child’s age or peer group. It is the product of a rich web of relationships among students who interact daily in their multi-age classes. Through this interaction students make friends and learn to value and work with other students of different personalities, abilities, ages, and sexes.
