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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, how long have you lived in the DCC? Seems like this process should be understood by someone that made school decisions for Ms and HS already within the DCC. What research did you do before you moved? How are you supporting your child during this time? Are they prepared to continue at their same HS? [/quote]

I’ve been in the DCC for only this year. My daughter was in a private es/ms and when she graduated we decided to go to a public hs (northwood). My daughter got severely bullied at northwood, and she told me in late May that she wanted to transfer, so at that point it was already too late to transfer schools. It was her idea to transfer so I wanted to respect her decision by trying to make it possible any way I can. I moved into the Blair zone thinking that she would be automatically assigned to her base school because the same thing happened to her at Northwood (She didn’t do any “choice process”). I don’t care what I have to do as long as she doesn’t have to go to northwood for next year, so anybody that could help me figure out some way to make that happen I would really appreciate[/quote]

You've received some good advice here, but it would be helpful to know more about this bullying. Was she targeted personally by specific kids or was it more just a culture of exclusion?

If the former, did the she report it even to a counselor? Did you include the bullying (and any documentation) in the COSA request?

Also, you seem pretty zeroed in on Blair being the answer here. What makes you think the situation would be substantially different?

Basically, your options are:

1) Go back to MCPS with a bullying-specific case and a clear explanation of why you think Blair would be better.

2) Appeal to the Blair principal directly

If those fail, your options become:

3a) Send her back to Northwood with a clear plan for bullying and for identifying a peer group that shares her interests

3b) Move again, but go outside the DCC or NCC
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