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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here--Yes, indeed, I am a government employee currently serving overseas and we have been paying taxes for years.

20:10, thanks for the support.  I don't know that we deserve to be at the top of the list, but I do appreciate that we have the same shot as everyone else.

Another reason I think HBW could be a good fit is because when we have lived in Arlington, everyone in our family has found it challenging to make friends.  It seems like many folks have been in Arlington for years, got to know each other when kids were little and in playgroups together, etc.  Breaking in to the community with older kids is hard.  (And because my spouse and I both work full-time, we have less time to be involved in school/community events etc that would lend themselves to getting to know others.)  By going to HBW, my son wouldn't have to break in to established cliques, he'd be meeting a bunch of new faces just like everyone else.[/quote]

I was in your shoes a few years ago and had the same concerns, we went private. My kid needed more structure and he got it and a little bit of hand holding. Now, with the more nurturing environment and a little maturity, he's performing near the top of his class. This whole year so far, I have not had to remind him to do any of his work, he got straight A's last semester taking all honors classes. In the pass his grade would suffer because he forgot to turned them in. He now goes off to the study for peace and quite to so he can study - we all stand in amazement.[/quote]

We're in APS and saw this happen with both our boys over time. My DC1, a high school senior, is a straight A student taking mostly AP/IB classes and has been independently (and apparently quite easily) managing his work for several years with no input or assistance from us at all. But in 6th and 7th grades, he was a train wreck--willfully ignoring some assignments, forgetting to turn in others, missing deadlines, etc.

The key to your post is "a little maturity," not "went private."[/quote]

I'm the pp you quoted. It's hard to tell that is just maturity that has caused the turnaround. My kid needed to have a more motivated peer group so he wouldn't fall in with the slackers when he was in public. The smaller size of the private and amongst other things he's found a more motivated peer group, there are not many slackers. He had space to develop a better concept of where he wants his future go. He could've gotten lost at a bigger school. I think the person he is now would do well in public, in fact, he agrees too. But a couple years ago,we didn't want to risk it. All of his middle years was a mountain of stress for us, and you read here all the time about parents of bright HS kids not leaving up to their potential for one reason or another. We were working with a lot of unknown and made the best decision for our situation. [/quote]

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