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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seeking some input. We have an athletic child who is pretty average in school. He’s pretty sensitive, not a good test taker with a very mild LD, no behavioral issues and has average social skills. Due to covid, we couldn’t tour classes in person last year and only got in to one private school. He loves the teachers at his new school and the activities and campus but isn’t making many friends and it’s bothering him. He wants us to save our money and send him to public school with his friends but the public school is not the best and wouldn’t support him academically. Do we start our search for a new private school again for next year?[/quote]

We're in a similar boat, DD wants to return to public for the same reason.  Academically she's doing well and the new school is large enough that there should be enough people to connect with, but she's super shy and it's not happening. She thinks life at the public MS would be so much better. We've been surprised by the sort of "out of sight, out of mind" attitude by many of her ES friends and it looks like she's initiating most of their contact which makes me wonder how good of friends they actually were and are they worth making another change for?  [/quote]

I think you can be sincerely good friends but not be able to sustain a friendship the same way when you're no longer seeing each other regularly. You absolutely need to put in a ton of effort to maintain relationships with people you don't see often, especially as a child.[/quote]

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