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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HS is very different from college. I am not sure it's going to help that much. I would keep him at the online school.[/quote]

I agree with this. Nothing about a senior year in a public high school is "preparation" for college.[/quote]
In this case, the preparation here is reintegrating with peers and being able to resist bad influences. College is going to be a whole new set of opportunities to make poor choices. If OP’s son can’t manage a return to in person as a senior, I’d be really concerned about sending him to college with no supervision.

OP - has your son retained contact with the “bad influences”? What about friends from the neighborhood and in elementary and middle school? It sounds like your son went to high school as a freshman in the 2021-22 school year. That year was crazy, coming back after the virtual year where far too many kids had been unsupervised for a year. That wasn’t a school specific issue. But it’s been two years and those other kids have also changed or may no longer be there. Even if they are there, it’s unlikely that they would specifically be interested in your son as long as he isn’t specifically seeking them out.

I think you should listen to the therapist and have your son return to his original high school. This will let him reconnect with kids he had positive relationships with and demonstrate his new self to them, if he wishes. Whether or not he really makes new friends, at least it lets him have closure by going back. But most likely he will discover that everyone has changed and he will make a new group of friends.

-HS teacher[/quote]

Please do not listen to this well-meaning person who has no experience treating substance abuse.  DO NOT go back to original school.[/quote]

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