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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]tell her she can switch next year.  encourage her to join an activity she is interested in even if its scary.  reconnect with some middle school friends for something outside of school.  its potentially an important learning experience for college— a lot of students have a similar experience if they are on the shyer side and start out in a new environment with close/established friends[/quote]

Why would switching necessarily solve the problem?

Inherent in the design of DCPS/DCPCS  is a great re-shuffling of kids between middle school and high school.  Even if a kid continues to a feeder school, a bunch of others won't.

I don't like it, but I see no solution in the system we are given.[/quote]

Yes. My kid had a friend who, senior year at JR, had to make new friends. They’d gone PK-12 in the JR pyramid. But nearly everyone from their friendship group (including my kid) went to private or application schools, or moved to the suburbs, or left the DC area. And then at the end of junior year this kid looked around and realized that all their close friends at JR were graduating seniors. That’s just how it is sometimes. [/quote]

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