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[quote=Anonymous]I’d do it now since your DC is only in K. It’s true that new kids will come in during expansion years and that can be a positive change. it can also go the other way. No way to predict what will happen. I kept waiting, hoping the negative parental involvement would wane as my DCs got older but for one of them it just got worse. Watched a few parents push a teacher out (a favorite of both my DCs) and get other teachers shifted around. LS and MS were the worst. It’s tough going through the tween/teenage years having to be perfect and happy all the time. Many parents expect the school to deliver that because of the high price tag. It’s a zero sum game in many instances so the school plays whack-a-mole trying to please the squeakiest parent. By HS most parents back off a bit b/c they know they need good recs for college apps and their DCs are driving/socially independent. If we had a do-over would’ve stayed in public school until 8th grade then moved them to private for HS.[/quote]

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