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[quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of general advice with little specifics, or maybe I didn't read it all too carefully. Here is what I would do and have seen others do in fact:
- Contact the principal at your child's elementary feeder (assuming he/she went to an elementary school in DC) and ask if they'd take him/her back. If that school is your IB school, then they have to anyway. This has the undeniable upside of putting your child into a familiar environment, one where there are also familiar faces, teachers and peers. Don't worry about what that might mean "having failed" at something. That's just now how it is looked at by kids. They'll say s/he missed us, our school, and move on. They'll be glad to have him/her back in fact.
- If it's not your previous school, then your IB school is of course an option and might provide a nice break before seriously thinking about middle school again.
- Depending on where you live, there may be schools that have under-enrolled 5th grades, such as mentioned in the case of Maury, Brent, Watkins. There isn't per se an incentive for any of those principals to take your child because there won't be added resources with it, only possibly more work. It's purely at their discretion and they probably won't need to heed any waitlists any longer at this time. What could sway someone looking at your case are test scores, not the recent ones of course but the elementary school grades. If they are in the advanced category. it would give a principal piece to think there won't be too much catching up to do and there may be that extra data point come spring testing season in favor of the school and teacher. So have any such conversation with someone unknown with those scores ready and ideally in hand.

Don't worry too much about "the long-term plan". What counts, especially at this age but also in general, is that the here and now works out. I have kids of all ages and can tell you first hand that's a safe bet and working proposition. Or put differently: While, yes, he/she may well weather it until April, the social-emotional and academic risks associated with that are just not worth any uncertain gains.[/quote]

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