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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the mom of two boys who posted above.

It's not a good excuse but sometimes at places that are really fairly safe (expensive areas without crazy parents who try to steal kids from the other parent), people don't think to create rules until there is a crime or incident.  That doesn't make it okay.  It's just how people behave when they feel safe.  US schools have been getting a lot more secured in the last 20 years.  My kids' public schools are mostly locked all day now but 30 years ago they wouldn't have been.  Schools with day students who are self-dismissing might also have looser rules.

Regarding immersion for language learning, maybe just coming home and relaxing with after-school TV and movies would be a more relaxing start (you could choose educational programs).  Your kid may need decompression time from doing school in  a foreign language.  I'm more familiar with high schoolers doing home stays and going to school in other countries.  Even that is rough.  At 12, maybe in a public school there are some clubs where he can make friends.  When I was an 8th grader in a US public school, I had a friend from Japan and a friend from Germany.  They seemed to be doing okay with English, despite only being in the US a few years.

Can you maybe get recommendations from last year's school?[/quote]

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