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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about home schooling for a year and a half?[/quote]

Is this an option for you? You could use an online school as others have suggested if you don't want to take on actual homeschooling. If you're on FB, I highly recommend the group "Secular, Eclectic, Academic (SEA) Homeschoolers" and then within it the MS & HS subgroup. They have lots of conversations around situations where people are pulling their kids out of unfortunate public school situations to homeschool. [/quote]

Wouldn't that just reinforce her issues? Seems more like psychiatric help is in order.[/quote]

Psychiatric help for who?  What makes you think the OP’s daughter needs psychiatric help?  It’s a bit unclear.  [/quote]

Hi, OP here. Yes, my daughter doesn't need psychiatric help and honestly, home-schooling is not going to be the way to go for her as she's a very social person and needs a group of friends around her. Homeschooling is going to be worse, unfortunately.[/quote]

What happened to friends from elementary??[/quote]

We were part of a boundary reassignment and her friend group basically got split up, with most of her friends going to the previous middle school. [b]Those assigned to her current middle school either got COSAs, did home schooling, went to private, moved, or borrowed an address. Some of them tried the middle school but the parents pulled them out. We were invested in trying it and proving everyone wrong but seeing my child miserable has changed this. [/b]Truthfully, I wouldn't say that all public middle schools are like this. We know families in neighboring middle schools who are fairly happy with their experience there and don't have the same issues that are facing ours. Ours is a combination of a high population of troubled kids, overburdened staff, and I hate to say it,  a culture of low expectations.  [/quote]

It sounds like you gave it a respectable try but it’s time to walk back and use one of the other solutions that the other parents have gone with. You really want to avoid letting your kid linger in that bad environment, as she will start to hate school/learning, associate it with misery/stress, or even fall in with a bad peer group. It seems you’ve done your best but it’s time to figure something else out.

Also my condolences in your being redistricted. I’m going to guess Clarksburg? It’s really frustrating how MCPS has screwed over parents trying to buy in the good school districts - a big issue since there is a significant disparity between the good and bad schools here. [/quote]

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