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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely move her. Get the academics right! She’ll make new friends and will enjoy it more if she has some academic peers. Her friendships from PK-4 are unlikely to be lifelong friendships away.

I moved my daughter two weeks into K last year from a school she was comfortable with. She did fine. It took about 2 months fir her to be equally comfortable with the new school.[/quote]

NP but thanks for this. DD is at a new school for 1st this year and while school only started last week, we had some tears last week. Glad to see that the transition really does just take some time. [/quote]

Just chiming with another anecdote re: moving a K child.  We moved our child after K, after she'd been at our IB for 3 years, and where we were actively involved and friends with many families.  Kid was somewhat shy/quiet but loved the school and had lots of friends, and seemed to know all the students and staff.  We told her towards the end of K that she'd be changing schools.  She took it pretty hard, and there were a lot of tears and attempts to convince us to let her stay at IB.

We spent a lot of time getting her ready for the new school, which was language immersion--we visited a country where the language is spoken (was a previously planned trip), spring weekend language classes, summer immersion camps, did playdates at the new school, etc.  Still, despite a pretty smooth transition, it was months into the new school year before she stopped asking regularly to return to our IB.  We also live close to the IB, so it's not really out of sight out of mind.

We did try to maintain friendships with old friends, and even put her in an activity that meets at the old school.  That has worked well, and now, a year later, she doesn't ask as much to return to the old school.

tl;dr: It definitely takes some time, depending on how long at prior school, whether IB or not, kid's temperament, etc.[/quote]

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