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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell yourself that you'll give it a try until xmas.  There will be adjustments the first few months.   Stay the course until xmas.  If you or your kid doesn't like it, you can switch back at the end of 2nd quarter.

I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised by everything including the parents and kids who are not AAP.[/quote]

+1.  It’s natural to have cold feet the week before you send a kid off to a new school. And their may be some bumps. But you chose a Center for a reason and new admin doesn’t mean bad.  Take a deep breath.  And I would say stick out a school year unless their is a really significant issue.  At the end of the year, if it looks like a bad match, it can be undone.

Pro-tip, if they mix kids up for specials and it’s a problem, [b]starting in 4th have your kid play a stringed instrument. Then they will track with mostly AAP for specials too.[/b] [/quote]

Disgusting.[/quote]

Oh FFS. I wrote this. It was a joke. It needed an /s or whatever.

My kid went to a poorer Center and it was fine. No cooties or anything. She did play a stringed instrument— because she really wanted too.  The year she wasn’t strings tracked was no better or worse than the year she was.   But, the way her school worked, iband and strings did track a lot of AAP kids for specials. .  But inflicting a year of beginner viola screeching and forcing your kid to practice and recitals where they repeat one note off tune for 20 minutes on yourself  to keep your kid from spending a half an hour a day with the poors in art class is nuts and I thought people would get that.

BTW— that kid is now starting her 7th year of viola and I love listening to her play. But there were several years where practice sounded like dying cat.  She now attends high school with some poors. Still no cooties.  She did however get lice FOUR TIMES her second grade year at her very affluent, no poors ES.   And lice??  Much, much worse than cooties. [/quote]

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