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[quote=Anonymous]Below 4th grade it’s easy to adjust, just don’t move too many times if you can avoid it. Starting in 4th grade, you start to get into the “tween” years which can be rough socially. Also in late elementary is when differing qualities of education start to become apparent. A kid who was a great student at a so-so school might have trouble adjusting to a rich public school or private school where the expectations and requirements are higher. Also keep in mind if moving from a middle class to an upper middle or wealthy area that can be a big shock to a kid, even at a young age. Middle school is probably the hardest time to move, avoid if at all possible.

I personally started a new school in 2nd grade but didn’t move - went from the option Montessori-like school to the neighborhood school and it was fine. We moved in 4th from a lower middle class area to an upper middle class area and that sucked hard. Yes, the education was a lot better looking back on it, but it wasn’t worth my classmates singling me out for my hand me down clothes and my family’s small house. Then we moved again at the beginning of 8th and that also sucked but for different reasons - I wasn’t the poor kid anymore, but I had a hard time getting used to the smaller town, homogenous (we were somewhat weird for being Catholic!) slower pace of life. So a lot of it depends where you move.[/quote]

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