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[quote=Anonymous]1) Really strong high school placement program. Make sure parents know, starting in 4th grade or so, how your high school placement works, who is in charge of it, and what your school's track record is. Have an info session for families with kids in grades 4-7 with a presentation geared towards retaining them, that's separate from the 8th grade actual-application-process presentation. If parents don't have confidence in this process, implement changes.

2) Maintain the quality of your academics even if you have the dynamic where the more academically advanced kids leave early. Communicate early and often to parents about specifically how you're going to provide appropriate academics to the outlier kids. The same goes for kids who are more developmentally mature and ready for the challenges and opportunities of a bigger school. Is your middle school helping them grow in executive functioning? There's a fine line between "supportive" and being too forgiving, too indulgent, not letting them make their own mistakes and experience the consequences.

3) The dynamic where the more capable and well-behaved kids leave early and the kids who are left are less smart, less well-behaved, or more likely to have special needs is very real. People are going to be unwilling to talk about this, it's an awkward and sensitive topic. But that's what a lot of this is really about. [/quote]

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