<p>I see RBGG’s point. There are many good reasons to wait a year and start bs in 10th grade, rather than 9th. My current bs kid, who loves school, says that it would have been easier to go away a year later. The point is simply that nothing much is lost by waiting a year unless the child is truly miserable and desperately needs to get out. </p>
<p>The next year, though, our family would be looking at a wider range of schools–maybe more willing to settle having tried the dream school twice?</p>