Excuse me if I come across as a bit daft, I'm autistic (Aspergers) so often struggle to see the bigger picture.
My DD is currently in Year 4 she is happy there. Her class is full of nice kids, she is doing well.
My DSD is at a state secondary in year 8. She has had sexual harassment there and has been self harming. She described her school as being a bear pit.
DSD lives mostly with her mum, I had no input to where she went to school.
I'm really upset and anxious about what DSD is going through but my hands are tied as are DP's. All we can do is give DSD love, advice and pray she gets through OK.
DSD's experience of state secondary has caused me to panic about DD.
DD although popular and happy in her little primary school, is showing signs of being 'different'.
I felt an independent girls school would be a more sheltered and environment for her. I began sending her to a tutor to prep her for entrance exams.
The tutor assessed her and said she was 2 1/2 years ahead of actual age in reading and spelling and would be a good candidate for sitting the exams.
However DD has struggled sometimes in her sessions with the tutor because 1-1 sessions (at school she's in a class of 32) are so different, she's perfectionist and gets very upset if she gets a question wrong. She also doesn't understand why she's doing non-verbal reasoning when the 'doesn't so it at school'.
We have a good prep school close to us so I thought maybe she would so better there in preparation for entrance exams.
But then I'm thinking what if she hates it there or gets bullied as the new kid in class.
Sorry if this sounds a little incoherent, I'm tying myself in knots trying to do what's best.
Any advice welcome, thanks in advance.
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Auti · 13/05/2016 10:37
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