Dd is in year five and will be going to a state comprehensive in year seven. We're starting to choose and I'm feeling wobbly. Our finances and philosophy both mean that we need and want to send all three of ours to state comprehensives, almost certainly co-ed but we have several high attaining independents near us. Dd has been to a number of activity days at two of them and I am finding it hard to keep my head when the marketing material comes home and dd has had a lovely time.
Please can you share your good experiences of state education. Dd is academically able and enthusiastic, but also struggles in some ways to focus and I fear (dh does not!) she might not be the "she'll succeed wherever she goes" type. We are both teachers, but that isn't helping me stop wobbling.