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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think you should leave it completely up to your daughter, but on some level she needs to feel like you're not totally discounting the things that worry her. If there is an activity she does with her existing friends, promise to make it a priority. Have her do a shadow day and try to get her into an honest discussion afterwards about what the pluses and minuses of each might be. Then make a deal with her: if she puts in a solid year of effort at the Catholic school, and tries to make it work academically and socially, then at that point you will put the decision to her about whether to continue or go to the public HS. Today, as a 13 year old, she's only going to see downsides and opportunity costs from this decision because the she's built the public HS into her social/emotional baseline. So as a parent you're entitled to at least put her in the position of actually knowing and becoming familiar with the options she has to chose between. Once that happens though, it should be up to her. [/quote]

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