How hard is it to switch back to public schools?

Do you think I should switch schools?

• I am currently a freshman in high school, so I will be a sophomore next year. In December I moved, but I open enrolled into the school I was currently going to so that I wouldn't have to switch schools in the middle of the year. I have been debating on if I should go to a new school next year or continue open enrolling into the school I am at now. The school I am at now is much nicer than the other school. It is newly built and very high tech. The other school is... well, pretty much a dump. I know that education should be the most important factor in deciding to switch or not, but I have been having a lot of problems with my friends lately also. I have had the same 2 best friends since 5th grade. We never really had much drama all throughout middle school, but now that we are in high school there is always some kind of drama. I know it is to be expected of high school girls to act a little mean, but in some cases it has gotten unbearable. My best friend and I are constantly fighting and I try to fix things, but I just seems to make things worse. It all started when she joined the tennis team. We had planed to try out together, but no one ever told me when the try outs were so I didn't even get a chance to play. Anyways, she has made a lot of new friends since joining the team, and they all hate me for no reason. I have never even had a real conversation with these girls but yet they have made it a priority to make my life a living hell every chance they get. I've attempted to apologize for whatever it was that I did, but they just won't listen. At the beginning of the year she would get invited to their parties and I wouldn't, but she would always tell me about it to make sure that I was okay with it and didn't feel too left out. She just told me about a party that she went to this Friday. I had asked her to come over Friday night and she had told me that she begged her parents but she wasn't allowed. I now realize it was obviously a lie... I think that is what prompted me to write this. I just constantly feel left out with her. She has also recently gotten a boyfriend that doesn't like me also. He kind of has a reason though. My friend gave me a bruise on my arm, because I was looking at her new phone and her boyfriend wanted to see it. He had already seen it many times and it was the first time I had seen it, so I said no and she thought it was appropriate to dig her fingers so far into my arm that it left finger marks that didn't go away for 2 weeks and her nail cut my wrist and made it bleed. So I got really mad at her and we didn't talk until the bruise healed. They thought I was to blame since I was the one that wouldn't give back the phone. It's a stupid reason, but at least there is a reason behind it. Even though all of that is happening to me, there is still a reason I want to stay. The other one of my best friends... well, I am kind of her only real friend. We are both very, very shy and it is difficult for us to make new friends. I don't want tom leave her alone. Everyone else has abandoned her and I don't want to do the same. I also don't want to be too shy to make new friends. I know about 3 people that go to this other school so its not like i would be completely alone.. but i still think it would be hard for me. Well thank you for reading this long life story of mine. :) I know there are aspects of both school that I should consider and I need to talk to my parents some more about this whole thing, but I just want you opinion on if I should switch schools. If so do you have any tips on how to easily make friends? If not, do you have any advice on the situation I have with my friends? Thank you!!!! :) ~Kylie

• Answer:

  It seems like having a clique of several girls after one is enough to want to select another school for my education. Ones two friends also will have continuing problems and you will have on-off-off friendships for the rest of your days in the old school. That doesn't seem like a nice time in the old school. Furthermore, ones would-be friends might have targeted you as a victim because your best girl friend told them about you. That information about you circulating in the old school is also powerful enough to strongly suggest to one that to go to the other new school. One could take on a different way of interacting with new classmates in the new school. One may even throw off the old shyness, develop many new friends, and may be enjoying school better in a new school. After all, new programs, more technology, and new school facilities are going to feel good. Hey! That's going to feel like Christmas. Nevertheless, the choice will be yours. Good luck.