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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD did not find her people immediately at her private school and spent a lot more time with her public school friends initially. By sophomore year, as she started to do more clubs and got involved with school based activities, she started to hang out more with her friends from her current private school than her neighborhood/private school friends. It was a slow transition and I don’t think she would have made the effort to cultivate new friendships if she knew she could hit the eject button and go back to public.

Also-I would encourage you to really think deeply about the reasons you switched to private. If you felt the academics would be better or the size or overall experience or maybe general culture/religious aspect drew to to the school, ask “has that proven to be the upgrade we were looking for?” If yes, stay and help her navigate the friendship piece. If no, maybe going back to public makes sense.[/quote]

This is great advice. There's also nothing wrong with having a couple friend groups from different areas of life! That's actually beneficial.

Fwiw, my youngest sibling did what you're describing back in the day and, looking back, thinks it was a bad call. Our local HS is/was considered quite strong, but you got lost if you were that basically good student who didn't make trouble.[/quote]

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