We accepted a place for our 11 year old at a SS that is highly rated, very academic and my husband and I are happy with. Unfortunately our child has never had a good feeling about the school from the first visit a year ago. We were hoping this would turn around after the open day last week but they are still saying they don’t feel good about it.
There are not many good options where we live so we felt lucky to have this place (the school is very oversubscribed) and were hoping that things would improve but this doesn’t seem to be happening.
Has anyone else experienced this and how worried should we be? Should we trust that the school will be able to turn the negativity around in September? Or should we be frantically ringing round waiting lists?