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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like your daughter is mourning for her MS experience. What a terrible Catch-22 to have to choose social over academics or the other way around. I would never discount a teenager's saddness and if you truly feel that she would be happier going back to public then let her go.  Sounds like you and your DH were fine with the academics at the public school... maybe she is missing the co-ed experience.  Did she choose Stone Ridge for herself?  I would be a bit wary if her MS friends are really not reaching out to her at all to stay in touch.  [/quote]

I would never encourage a high schooler to leave a good school for a social experience that is based on how it was in middle school, but that's just me.
The whole idea behind most of the private schools is fewer daily social issues (such as hair and makeup done daily to compete for boys/girl attention? Who is dating who, who is on what drug today, who is my friend today and who isn't speaking to me today because of Xyz ,etc) to focus on getting an education that you can use for the rest of your life. You can do that certainly but I wonder what you thought a private single sex school was about?[/quote]

This is exactly right.  You are comparing a public middle school to a private high school.  Who is to say she will go back to the high school in 10th and be happy?  There may be more socialization going on but there is also more dangers and drama.  My daughter left public for all the "too cool for school" nonsense and is happy in private.  [/quote]

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