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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The high schools will start practices for all kinds of activities in early August. Don't be gone. Insist he try-out for something

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This, don’t force friendship.   Let it be natural,  everyone will be in the same boat![/quote]

Not really in public school. Most kids already know all of the kids from their middle schools.

I agree about joining something right away. My kid played a spring sport and honestly, it was rough until then. Band, Cross country, theather, anything. Agree about doing the tryouts in August. It will help a lot. [/quote]

Our public school had kids from 4 different middle schools, most of those middle schools also fed to other high schools. Lots of kids did not know a lot of kids.[/quote]

Also there are lots of kids coming from private to public in high school (if relevant to your situation). My kid struck up a conversation with everyone who sat remotely near him during the first week of freshman year because he was over his previous friend group and wanted to start a totally new one. He became the axis of a new 15-ish person friend group of really nice guys. That group is still going strong three years later.

Now my kid admittedly can be a social butterfly, and even with that he found this difficult. But this is just encouragement that lots of kids might be looking for a change as they enter high school.[/quote]

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