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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DS is in Kindergarten at one of the local independent schools. This was not our first-choice school but one we were excited to attend, nonetheless, after being waitlisted at our first-choice school. The admissions team at the school we were waitlisted at suggested we apply again in the future.

His current school is a wonderful place but we hope to eventually end up at that first-choice school (all the reasons it was our first-choice last year remain true today!), and we are considering applying for first grade. We have some mixed feelings because DS is doing quite well at his current school. But we think the other school would be a good fit, too, and perhaps a better fit in the long term. (Obviously, time will tell if that's right or not -- we can't know for sure because he's only 6!)  The first-choice school is also a K-12 and we'd like to try to get in before admissions gets even more competitive in the later years. We also think transitioning out of DS's current school would only get harder for him as the years go by and he settles in even more and develops deeper friendships.

Still, we are hesitant to apply because:
1) we don't want to turn off the teachers or Admin at his current school, especially since it's possible he won't get in to the other school. We don't want to be seen as "that family" who doesn't actually want to be there. There's really a lot we love about the school! 
2) we aren't quite sure how to talk to our DS about this process. Last year he was leaving preschool and knew he'd be attending a new school so there was nothing confusing about exploring new schools. This year, his expectation is that he'll continue at his current school. We've started to feel him out about it and he seemed a bit ambivalent about exploring a new school, but not quite sure how to explain it.

Anybody been in this situation before? How did you navigate exploring "the one that got away" without screwing things up at your current (also wonderful) school? How did you manage with the current school? How did you manage with your child? [/quote]

First grade is not an admissions year generally so you are taking a risk unless it is a school I am not familiar with. [/quote]

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