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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with prior posters that shifting schools multiple times isn't ideal either for kids or families. Sorry to hear you have had a rough year. I feel like this has been suggested/brought up already, but if you haven't already, ask around to parents from different grades/classes and to get a sense of if it is not just a one-teacher fluke of a bad year.
Another school that isn't super hard into from OOB (after ECE) is Payne. It is a smaller school with only 2 classes per grade, and most of the teachers have 10-15+ years of experience. So far it hasn't had the 5th grade drop off to Basis/Latin, many of the kids do/score well on the various metrics you can look at, and the majority of it's 2023 5th graders will be at Eliot Hine next year.  Stepping back a bit, I do think almost all schools anywhere had a rough year after coming back from COVID, both with kids coming back behind academically, with behaviors, or teacher turnover during the pandemic. So hopefully in the coming year or two things will settle down a bit.
Teacher tenure is something else to look at when you are looking at schools, and I believe that is publicly available. As somebody who taught at a school with very high turnover, and whose kids have been at a school for 8 years with barely any turnover, I can see firsthand the difference it makes. [/quote]

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