My husband and I are currently looking to enroll our daughter in private school next school year. There are a couple of reasons for doing this like smaller class sizes and better teachers. My daughter attends the largest high school in our state and it is very overcrowded. As a result, her classes have more than 30 students each and it is difficult to take classes that you want. She had an English teacher last year who was fresh out of college and only complained to her class how much she hated teaching. She also had a trig teacher who didn’t know what she was teaching and would confuse the entire class by teaching something one way and then reteaching it. Although, sending my daughter to private school would help academically I’m worried about the social affects of her switching schools. She is a very social person and has known at least 1/4 of her graduating class since elementary school. Since it would be her junior year I know that a lot of the students will already have their group of friends in place. In addition, my daughter is involved in her class council (Secretary), started her schools Pinoy Pride Club and is involved a lot in her school so switching schools may have negative affects of her extracurriculars.
Not an easy decision. Does feel strongly abt either option?
You are considering the change for all the right reasons. I would say that what probably matters is the private school.
We have privates near us where a core of the class have been together for at least a decade (through the lower school or a feeder). I was wary of these, even at 9th.
My son went to a BS that was pretty much the antithesis of that - started at 9th, and even the schools that sent several kids rarely sent more than 4% of the class - and the kids who came in at 11th were rapidly absorbed into the community and assuming leadership roles.
Done thoughtfully, you can probably get this right. It sounds like yourDD has the personality to make it work if she wants it.