If I tell him I’m the morning he’ll have to go through the whole school day devastated. His small friendship circle all have siblings in the school he wanted, so they’ll all get in.
My son has a sibling at a different school to the one him and his friends all want, so that’s the one he’s been given.
If I don’t tell him in the morning (pretend I haven’t received email yet) I could get an idea when he comes home of which of his friends are going where and maybe (unlikely but hopefully) one of them got allocated the same school as my son.
But then he’d also know I was fibbing about not getting the email because all his friends mums already had.
Give him the pain and see if his friends can support him through it, or delay the pain and take the full brunt of it when he gets home?
Husband is dismissive saying it’s a first world problem and son will ‘get over it’. He doesn’t understand how important son’s friendship circle is. Nor that the preferred school was a better fit for his abilities and talents, whilst the school he’s been allocated isn’t.