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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please do not take this the wrong way, but with the best will in the world, I suspect your DD may be in the wrong school. It just doesn't sound like a good fit or somewhere where she will flourish and gain confidence.[/quote]

I understand where you are coming from and DH and I chose this school over our neighborhood school after much debate.

Our other choice for school is the neighborhood middle school with 950 kids crammed into a 40 year old building built for 600.  THe school we chose - her current school has 64 kids in her grade and 450 kids 6-12th grade.  We debated not sending her to this choice school but when her neuropsych came back the end of 5th grade (5-9) she scored >12-9 grade equivalent and  >19.11 age equivalent for reading comprehension, 10-5 grade and 16 age equivalent for spelling, 7-4 grade and 12.8 age for math etc...  we thought she could handle the academic and that the smaller environment would be better.

She is not gifted - deducing logic puzzles  and other gifted traits are not her strengths, thus the reason she is not gifted .  She is a hard worker, though.  But shyness is getting in her way....[/quote]

Kids are type A and rude, teacher lets them steamroll your daughter, and you're paying for the privilege? How is she doing socially--is she finding a good group of friends among the 30 other girls in her grade? FWIW, our DD has a similar profile to yours and we chose the public middle school, in part because she'd have more possibilities to make friends.[/quote]

No we are not paying - she goes to a choice public school and won the blind lottery but it is highly ranked so it draws many kids from the gifted program - kind of like a charter school in our district but different.[/quote]

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