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Two DC. In two different Secondary Schools

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Sparklingbrook · 02/07/2014 11:54

As of September that will be me. Anyone else done it? How do you stop yourself comparing? Is it a bit weird?

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Sparklingbrook · 02/07/2014 12:08

Yes Santas I think it will be the newsletters/communication/pastoral care that I will notice.
Due to an injury DS1 had at new school I am on first name terms with a lot of the staff there in Admin. Grin They were soo good about it.

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SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 02/07/2014 12:05

Yes, DS1 has just left one local school and DS2 is at the other one! It's never been odd to me at all, because for various reasons they have never been in the same school at the same time.

You will notice how DS2's school differs from DS1's though - for us it was contact. DS1's school is mega-contact - letters, texts, e-mails etc. etc. whereas DS2's is virtually no communication whatsoever. No newsletters, no e-mails, no text system - just an annual report.

Although, come to think of it, they do manage a letter when they want money for something!

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Sparklingbrook · 02/07/2014 12:01

So as not to drip feed, DS1 started at the school DS2 is about to but never settled, so after much deliberation we moved him. It was the best decision-all is fine.

DS2 didn't want to go to DS1's new school-all his mates are going to the original school and he's quite happy.

I think after 2 years I have got so used to the new school, it's weird to be going back to the old one where DS1 had so many miserable times.

Hope that makes sense.

Logistics not too bad DS1-school bus 12 miles away, DS2 walk half a mile.

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motherinferior · 02/07/2014 11:58

Round here it happens a fair bit as the two local comps are single-sex.

HercShipwright · 02/07/2014 11:58

Yep, DD1 is at a superselective GS, DS is at a comp. It's all I've known, so I don't know if it's weird. In September DD2 will go to DD1's school, and I'm wondering if that will be weird - having 2 kids at the same school again (it's been a while, DS is just finishing Y9).

I do compare the schools, all the time, but the comparisons work out about 50:50 between them - there are things about one school that I prefer, and things about the other school that I prefer.

What exactly are concerned about (other than logistics which can, I admit, be a bugger).

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Sparklingbrook · 02/07/2014 11:57

I went to the new intake evening for DS2 yesterday. It dawned on me suddenly how strange it will be.

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derektheladyhamster · 02/07/2014 11:56

No idea, but this will be me too in Sept Grin