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If she is 16, why not let her go to a public school? It's not as if it's going to ruin her in 2 years. You've done well to keep her out of the public schools for so long, and you will see the fruits of that later in her life.

Because the high school up the street is a real gang and drug type school which is hard to believe in this neighborhood.

Hungarian Gypsy tipped me off to this some time ago, how it is the drug capital of the northern part of our town. I have never seen this but this school has one wall painted for the Mexican's where they hang out, another for the Black kids where they hangout, etc. And one of their friends was telling me that she knows of 14 freshman who are pregnant at this school.

They are getting a far better education where they currently attend.

I caved into my daughters demand that she attend the public high school for the last two years, after attending Catholic schools for her entire education. What a mistake!

I recently saw the movie, "Mean Girls" and it was so close to the mark that I got the chills. What ultimately happened was that I became the notorious "Mean Mom" that every child has nightmares about; I spent most of those two years in front of that school. My daughter spent a fortune on the right clothes, hair, makeup, etc. Guess whose fortune that was? It was likely the most expensive and time consuming chapter of my life, and I see it as a big fat mistake all the way around. I caved into a 16 yr. old and paid dearly. She did OK and went on to college, but it would have been so much easier if I had stood my ground.

Hindsight is 20/20 and I cannot say what is best for hsmx3's daughter, but what really helped the most in our situation was the fact that I forced my daughter to always have an after school job. Her ice cream parlor job was a lifesaver. For me!!