Anonymous
Post 04/13/2026 02:55     Subject: Re:Redshirt another year of HS. How best to handle?
Our private high school put DC on a medical leave of absence and said we could:
-do online classes (accredited)
-repeat same grade

There were also conditions for re-enrolling (in treatment for anxiety) but we wouldn’t have had to reapply.

We ended up changing schools for a lot of reasons.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2026 01:14     Subject: Redshirt another year of HS. How best to handle?
What grade is your child in? I saw my bright DC become like a wilted leaf over the first two years of high school due to severe anxiety, depression and social struggles, and we moved DC from a pressure cooker to an online school. DC did intensive treatment, is repeating a grade and is doing better. I still don't know if repeating a grade was the right decision, but we did what we had to do to help DC.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2026 09:44     Subject: Redshirt another year of HS. How best to handle?
Anonymous wrote:I think you are prioritizing school at the expense of mental health treatment. Everyone I know who has dealt with this seems to regret it later. Because they need to ultimately pull them from school for more intense/residential treatment and they always wish they had just pulled the trigger on this sooner.

Public school will be just fine once she gets her mental health under control. Decide to focus on mental health only and then decide what to do.

NP here but our kid is in a similar situation as OP. Do you know what kind of mental health treatments they pursued?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2026 20:35     Subject: Redshirt another year of HS. How best to handle?
Where are you located? A school like Parkmont in DC might be a good fit, it is a small, alternative high school that works with kids with anxiety.

https://parkmont.org/whos-here/