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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]

"solid foundation"

LOL more like indoctrination into less academic.

If they had transfered to public they would be even more behind.

OP you do you. Giving your kid an education is a gift. This type is not.[/quote]

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