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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really struggling- for a variety of reasons (too identifying to get into but having to do with school culture/how they have handled things with one child)  I have come to really dislike our Big 3. We have a rising senior and another High schooler (older than 9th). I feel like its way too late to pull the plug, obviously for our senior. We have spent so much of our savings on this investment and I feel trapped. Obviously we want to do what is best for our kid and pulling a rising senior is not in the cards. Would you pull the younger kid? They are pretty happy and want to stay.

I feel disengaged and even hostile to the school (sorry I really am not being coy- but the details are too revealing). I just pay up and shut up, right?[/quote]

No
You are the consumer this is a business decision you are buying an education.

You get one shot as a parent to do this right.

There are no handcuffs here. Make a change for the younger kid. The older one only if these issues will mess up college etc otherwise that one is settled but the younger one why in the world would you stay.

We moved back to MCPS by 10th grade. For us the math & science where mine excelled just wasn't there. My kids were fine and ended up at schools for them like MIT & CMU. [/quote]

Oh come on, it’s very reductionist to call education a consumer purchase. Consumers also demand better service and to speak to the manager. I see it as a social contract in which yes there’s a certain product and expectation but the offering is complex (not just academic or athletic; the values, the peer group, the facilities, the things that make up life, the alumni, the boyfriend/girlfriend pool), and my expectations never include treating the admin as a mere service provider of teachers as employees. I think that’s where things go south for many parents. [/quote]

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