Hmmm, perhaps you don't even need uprooting: I spent many formative years in an American-run school overseas, which had high student turnover, perhaps in the realm of 10-30% per year.
Now I wonder what implicit lessons I may have taken away from being one of the few "old timers" as everybody else kept cycling through.
Returning to the US, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that some kids went to the same local schools their parents had.
Are you me?! Seriously though, I was in this exact same situation growing up and I can certainly relate to the other comments around not being great at maintaining long term friendships. Just another data point, but I do think there’s a similar effect in this sort of counter-scenario.
Now I wonder what implicit lessons I may have taken away from being one of the few "old timers" as everybody else kept cycling through.
Returning to the US, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that some kids went to the same local schools their parents had.