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What was the deciding factor of withdrawing them and at what grade level? [/quote]

We pulled our children when the older one was going into 7th grade and the younger one was going into 4th grade. With the older child, their sixth-grade class had around only 15 students and the numbers did not get any bigger for middle or high school. We wanted them to not be so attached to a small environment; they needed the opportunity to broader their horizons so they would learn to adapt to different situations more easily. They did a lot of activities / sports outside of school so it wasn't like the school was their only opportunity to be with kids their own age, but we wanted them to have a more "real" school experience, not just sitting in the same classroom with the same handful of kids until they graduated high school. Not knocking that environment; it works for many people but that was not what we wanted for our children. The timing was right because we had a lot of issues with our second child's 3rd-grade teacher that year as well and they were just ready to move on . That is the flip side of having a small class with only one teacher per grade - if your child and teacher do not mesh, there is no other option. Our second child is more of an extrovert than their older sibling and so was ready for a more varied experience at a younger age. They were 12 and 9 when we moved them to a parochial Catholic school and they both went on to a Catholic high school in NoVA. I will say - the academic transition was seamless from the small Classical Christian school to a larger school; both excelled at their new schools from day one and our older child was easily placed in the advanced track for math. I do give credit to that school for giving both children such a solid educational foundation in their early years.  [/quote]

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