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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is a Sophomore at TJ. It's just not a right fit and DC is miserable. Wants to finish this year and transfer in the summer to BS.

Not sure if we let DC push it through this year in a toxic environment (mostly bad teachers) or pull DC out now.

Grades are ok - A's and B's

Will moving to the base school reflect badly on DC college applications?

Please be kind. This is a stressful situation for us[/quote]

It might be that your child is adjusting to a new work load and that process is hard. It sounds like they are doing fine academically. Do you think that there is benefit to completing another quarter and seeing if their experience changes now that they are used to a different work load and they are seeing that they can be successful with that new workload?

Kids attending TJ are used to being smart and ahead. I would guess that a good number of those kids were not challenged in school. The first time that you are challenged can be a real shock to the system. It feels overwhelming and awful but once you adjust, it is easier to see that you are capable and realize that those feelings were something you can work through.

A similar, but different I know, experience for myself. I have always struggled with math, I have LDs, so we choose a college that did not have a math requirement to graduate. I ended up taking stats as an undergrad and earned a C. I kid you not, we had a party to celebrate that C because it was hard earned. I ended up in a graduate program that turned out to be very mathematically intense (before the internet was available for research and the like) The first semester was painfully hard. I had to teach myself matrix algebra and basic Calculus but I earned a 3.5 in my initial stats class. I stuck out the year, earning 3.5s in my stats classes and 4.0s is my other classes. I was fine with my 3.5s, it wasn't an issue for continuing in the program, hell, I was proud of those grades. I stayed in the program, earned funding, and completed my PhD.

It was hard and that first semester was a gut punch but I did well and ended up loving the program. It was hard to absorb that gut punch initially. No one would have been mad if I had dropped out. I would have been fine, my family would have been totally supportive. But I am glad that I stayed. I learned a lot about myself and went on to have a great experience.

Is this a shock to your child's system because they are having to work harder then they have had to before or is this a really unhappy and bad situation? That is my question. Your child will be fine if they change schools but they could find that they were good at TJ once they absorbed the initial shock.

Not judging but asking. [/quote]

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