Welcome, terakr! I'm sorry you and your DD are having such a hard time right now. I can't offer much in the way of concrete advice, not being from the US, but hopefully others who can will be along in a moment. I will say that you'll need to play the academic/art/social balance very carefully; it is not the case that academics trump the other elements, as you seem to be assuming, in most educators' minds.

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