My DS is in year 7 of an independent school in which he is a sports scholar (partially funded). He is also an academy footballer at a good club.
The school were aware of his ongoing football activities before starting the school, although he has started a new club since attending the school.
There were no policies, specific documents given when we accepted the scholarship, although I was aware that my DS would be involved in sport- presumably football and possibly others.
There are sometimes timetable clashes with school sports and academy training and I have been trying to manage that. The expectation is generally that my DS must prioritise school games and must always attend Saturday sport.
The academy that he is attending trains 3 times a week. 1 of the days is a “day release” from school where the boys do both education and football training.
The school has refused to give permission to “day release” - either part time or full time and have not been supportive or reasonable and only seem to be interested in my son’s contribution to school games.
I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place as my DS is very concerned that he is missing out by not attending his academy programme and feels powerless.
Any advice on how to approach this would be most helpful!