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[quote=Anonymous]This is a really hard choice and so hard to know based on your kids personality and her friend group.  My personal opinion, having two girls and a boy, is the grades 5-7 are the absolute worst for girls in terms of friend groups and mental health.  There is a weird tribal thing that happens where girls circle up into small groups that then ossify (for a period) and it can be hard to break in.  It’s like a weird game of musical chairs and you can end up with no chairs.  For my older daughter this happened in 6th grade.  I thought my younger daughter had survived it but then it happened in 7th grade.

I guess if you’re gojng into a school where lots of kids are new (private school with a big entry year) maybe it wouldn’t be so awful.  
I think I would say 5th grade, especially if she doesn’t go to a school that does a lot of special graduating class 5th grade stuff that she’d be sad to miss and if she is gojng into a MS where people will basically be making new friends.

I think I have a little PtSD from getting two girls thru middle school.  [/quote]

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