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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you are still here, I hope you can see from the responses that the problem is not unique to South Arlington schools.

If I were you, I would commit to working with my daughter, the teachers, the school counselor, other student(s) and their parents via group counseling with the school counselor (if repeat offenders are involved) through the next few months and see if things start to improve. As a backup plan, in case things don't improve, start to research the other school options you mentioned - conduct tours, ask PTA's to share contact information for parents you can talk to about those schools or attend a PTA meeting, and/or ask here on this forum (take what is useful!), and apply to the schools you feel comfortable with for Fall 2014. Open houses for APS are held in the winter of 2014 but I'm sure principals would be willing to give you a tour. Just be mindful, that the problem your daughter is experiencing now could happen again at another school. I do believe it is less likely to occur in a smaller school (&lt; +/-400 students) or a school with character education or a service learning focus. Also, a PP mentioned Responsive Classroom which is reportedly an excellent program for creating &quot;safe&quot; learning environments. The following schools in APS offer, or are committed to implementing, RC: Campbell, Jamestown, Nottingham, Key Immersion. There may be more. I wish all schools had it! Arlington Traditional School has a character education focus and Key Immersion has a program. Finally, if it gets to down to you pulling the trigger to move to another school, it wouldn't hurt to let the principal know why. She should be made aware of this! [/quote]

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