Mid-HS (non-academic) gap year?

If you can work remotely, and if the kids are willing, I think that moving to a Spanish speaking country and putting them in the local school there would give you all a tremendous experience, plus they’d become fluent in Spanish. You’ll have to, of course, do a lot of research to find a setting where the local school options are appropriate and good. You could then decide whether to stay and let them finish high school there, or move back to the US and put them in 11th grade of high school in the US (I’d recommend not going back to the stressful, hypercompetitive private school, but instead choose to live where there’s a good public high school), and let them finish there, and do the normal college app process from there.

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