Middle School vs General Visibility

Quest Atlantis Survey – Heathrow’s Thoughts on General vs. Middle School Visibility

A very interesting situation has developed. The middle school teachers can create accounts in the middle school visibility which would mean we would not be concerned about kids doing the same quests, however the kids will lose their lumins and quests. To keep their lumins and cols they would have to continue in the general visibility. There are two sides to this coin. In the middle school visibility they only interact with middle school kids, in the general visibility they would interact with elementary and any other middle school kids that are in the general visibility. If they go into the middle school visibility they will be able to do a quest again.

So the issues are:
Are the kids concerned about losing their lumins and cols?
Do they want to only chat with middle school kids when they go to middle school?
Are they happy about remaining in the general visibility and keeping their cols/lumins?

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I, Karthik surveyed 61 students about their feelings on this topic. Here are the results:
I surveyed 61 students that were unanimously concerned about losing lumins and cols. They want to stay in general visibility. They don’t want to change to middle school visibility when they get to middle school.

The students felt that they had worked really hard to get where they are now and if they lost everything they would feel “turned off”.

They know that they will be ahead in middle school and the new Questers in middle school visibility could ask help from us, but not if students have to start over again.

The students liked meeting all people and felt that they would be “closed off” if they only had access to middle school visibility.

They didn’t like the idea of losing all they had earned.

They felt they could learn from both younger students and older students.

Middle school is not as flexible with time as elementary school, so students felt that they could not work together collaboratively as much if they were only exposed to middle school students.

The students feel all are equal in QA. They got to know everyone as people not as an age distinction.
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Please, comment on this post by asking your class the issues and putting in the data. I would appreciate it because this depends on how we will be talking together in middle school, with everyone, or just middle school.Also it depends if we will keep our data in middle school or lose your data.