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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it a big deal for the school if kids leave mid way? How much of a hassle would it be for both schools?[/quote]
Kids move in and out of schools a lot - not a hassle. However, the semester change is the best time to do it mid-year. Let one school finish 2nd qtr grades, then the other school starts 3rd qtr grades. If you are considering this, I would check with your home middle school about course selection for next year - each school may be using a different timeline. Also you would need to check with the counselor about appropriate classes for your DC - they won't be the same as at the magnet. [/quote]

But the spot in magnet goes waste? Isn't that an issue?[/quote]

[b]It does.[/b]  But I don’t think that’s a good reason to make a kid miserable for 2.5 more years - that’s the fallacy of sunk costs.  And my kid didn’t win the lottery and is miserable and bored at the local school, so I would dearly love the spot.  But it isn’t possible, and OP should do what is best for her kid. [/quote]

Caveat: my kid is a senior now, so this may not be the case anymore.

But at Eastern, when a few kids moved away or went back to home schools in 6th, at the start of the 2nd semester they filled the empty slots from among the non-magnet kids already attending Eastern as their home school.

Not sure if these were kids originally on the wait list, or what; but my kid said they seemed to fit in just fine academically, so it probably wasn't just randomly picking a couple of kids with good grades. I think at least one had been in the CES/HGC with them in elementary.

No idea whether the magnet program generally filled any missing slots in later grades, though—things got kind of pandemic-y after that, so all bets were off anyway. But I'd guess it was probably confined to 6th, since they'd still have time to catch up on the skills they'd need to keep up with the work in 7th and 8th. In many ways, 6th grade was a pretty foundational year.[/quote]

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