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We are hoping to move to Summerville, Dorchester 2 schools, ideally next summer. However, we aren't going to pass up a job opportunity because that would just be dumb. We have 3 kids, 2 of which are in 4th grade now. Has anyone moved during the school year, from NY? What is the curriculum like? Changes? Ahead or behind?
I'm not personally sure about the curriculum changes but what I can share is the research on moving as it relates to the psych of children.
Research has shown that children changing schools during natural transitions to yield better results than those moving in unnatural transitions. Natural transitions are elementary school to middle school or middle school to high school. It's not a problem that is insurmountable, but please give extra care and attention to your children during unnatural transitions such as the one you describe. There are two major factors when it comes to poor outcomes for children: parental monitoring and social acceptance. Moving outside of a natural transition upsets the social acceptance variable and can be borderline traumatic. Think of it as you are erasing everything your child has done to develop an identity.
Again, it's not insurmountable, but PLEASE, give your child(ren) special care and attention around the transition.
- I studied child psych extensively in undergrad and graduate school and specialized in transition periods in graduate school.
Please do your research, compare schools in DD2 to your childrens current school. Many schools in the DD2 are over crowded and currently either using Common Core Curriculum or considering it.
I wouldn't move kids before the end of the school year. You didn't say who was up for getting the job, but, if it were possible, I'd have the person accepting the job go ahead and rent an apartment or something and the other parent stay with the kids until the end of the school year. It's hard to be a new kid at school, even with a new school year. But to start with 2 months left in the year? I just wouldn't.
Please do your research, compare schools in DD2 to your childrens current school. Many schools in the DD2 are over crowded and currently either using Common Core Curriculum or considering it.
We are trying to keep our move to the summer months. Here in NY CC is the curriculum and it basically sucks. I am not a fan by any means, and quite frankly, neither are their teachers. But, thy are doing good so I guess that's all that matters. Thank you everyone for the input.
Anyone on here from NY and had kids in school up here and moved south? Differences in education? CC was mentioned and I believe that is a federal program that states can adopt, right?
CC is designed, for better or worse, to deliver basic core classes in common with all of the other, say, fourth grades who adopt it. So in theory, it could make transitions easier academically, if not socially. We moved around a lot when I was a child and moving in summer, from my experience, stunk. It only increased my social anxiety by forcing me to anticipate what my new school (my job as a kid) was going to be like, where I would fit in, who l was going to hang out with, etc. Until the new school year started. It might also be a lonely time for your kids. I think it might be better to be the new kids for a couple of months or a few weeks before school let out, just so they could meet some of the other kids.
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