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[quote=Anonymous]The points in your post that stood out to me were that she has good friends and no commute. You’d be trading that for loss of neighborhood friends, or at the very least feeling different from them (still), and more time in the car. Those things would give me serious pause.

We didn’t choose a private for our kid, and maybe we should have. He could have used the support, particularly in math where his working memory was a real problem.

If you decide to stay you might help your daughter see that while her 3 BFFs read faster, maybe they don’t do math as well. Or maybe they don’t kick a soccer ball as well. Or maybe they are supergirls, but if she looks around her…there are other kids with dyslexia in her class. Guaranteed. There are also kids with ADHD, autism, math challenges, and a dozen other brain quirks. One of the things we have to help our anxious kids with high achievement expectations learn is that you don’t have to be perfect or even good at everything. It is worthwhile to do something hard and do it poorly! That is what grit is - doing something hard, failing, getting back up, and doing it again.

No worries, our dyslexic kids come out plenty gritty. You don’t need to keep your kid in her current school to develop grit - the world will provide. But you don’t have to spare her every experience of struggle, either, if she is otherwise doing well.[/quote]

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