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[quote=Anonymous]We sent our second (boy) to private for middle school--which was a financial hardship for us--after the experience of our first. We found that Gunston did not provide enough support to kids who struggled with the change to having 6-7 different teachers, multiple assignments to juggle, longer-term assignments, etc. They had teams of teachers, etc who coordinated some but we were unable to get any student-level support for our kid without an IEP. We knew our second DS, who was even more scatter-brained than the first, was going to get there, get immediately overwhelmed, decide he "couldn't do school" or "hated school," and we would never get him back on track. We sent him to a private with very small classes that focused on developing academic skills (not just content) and when he went back to Gunston for 8th he did...OK....but it was the year of virtual learning so also hard to say.

Middle school is hard, its hard for boys, big schools are hard, multiple classes/teachers are hard.....there are lots of reasons your kid can slip. What we could have done, instead of full private, was enroll in an after-school program or get a tutor. The downside is, there are hardly any offerings like that in south Arlington--you have to schlep to north Arlington or McLean. [/quote]

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