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PP, if you are still reading, We would be on the same timeline with our DS as your older child re doing this during Middle School.  Not sure if we would do 1, 2 or all 3 years away.  Developmentally, most teens have a strong need to establish and tighten peer-peer relationships.  Ours is an only child.  Did your older child have any issues with integrating/reintegrating socially?  Did they speak the local language of the country you moved to before going there, or learn it on the spot?  When you say that the last year was difficult to catch up with respect to math/sciences, do you mean that those subjects lagged behind your VA school, or that your child wasn't able to go on your 2-3 week driving holidays without slipping behind?   TIA for your advice![/quote]

No problem with making friends or socializing. MS had in place very good sponsorship program where they assigned two kids from the same grade during orientation. He school handled kids transition very well. It is very common for that school that kids come and go, so most of the kids were new at some point and very friendly. I don't know if it is just the nature of the private school or because of the specifics of the region. We had similar experience with new private school in VA as well. The cost of school was comparable with good private school in VA (approximately $18k per child per yer).

Kids didn't learn country's language in advance but was required to take it in school as part of the curriculum. Older daughter was also taking Spanish to keep up with American curriculum.  We were able to get around with English everywhere.

It  became harder for MS daughter to catch up with math and science when we was taking her for vacation during the school year (but she is a perfectionist, has all As since  kindergarten). Most of the time we travelled not on the school vacation time because both of us was working and we were traveling on our schedule, not spring and winter break schedules). No problem with VA public school curriculum this year,  they were more like year ahead of VA curriculum ( but there nothing that we can do since older already skipped a year when she was in ES and now already the youngest in her grade. Skipping one more year wouldn't do her any good). [/quote]

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