Argh.
Due to a bit of a shortage of secondary school places where we live, any decent schools (of which, thankfully there's a few) are very, very oversubscribed. We have a decent secondary school very close to us and although I do have a few concerns (is there such a thing as a perfect school?!) we're happy for her to go next year.
However, she hates it. She's visited but it made no difference. Her friends are going to the various fee-paying, selective schools in the wider area and she doesn't really get on with others in her class. I don't really blame her: some of them have been utterly vile to her (school is doing what they can, btw, can't fault that).
I can't get through to her that even though 40 or so dc from her primary who might go there, there will be 140 others to get to know. And anything I can to big it up. But she hates it!
She wants to go to another school and from what I can tell we are on the boundary of the catchment area. I think we'll put it as a first preference but the reality is she'll go the one nearby.
For full disclosure she's talented in a particular area and the nearby school doesn't do much in the way of it. I don't think this is a reaction to leaving primary school; she is looking forward to secondary school. Just not this one!!!!
How do I handle this?
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4strings · 29/09/2018 18:36
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