It's looking like DD will stay on at her school sixth form. She moved to this school at the beginning of Y10 after being managed out of her previous school and doesn't feel ready to make another transition. She's still quite traumatised and affected by this experience, but refuses to even think about counselling or anything like that.
That's fine and probably the right decision for her, after the whole of Y11 agonising about sixth form.
But although she has friends in school, she never sees them out of school. Variety of reasons (their religious and cultural backgrounds being one of them).
This would all be fine except for the fact that she spends so much time on her phone, looking at other girls her age either on SM or TikTok wishing her life was different. She no longer has any hobbies outside of school, says no to pretty much any suggestion and is really self-conscious eg always thinks other people are talking about her.
She has this idea that she's going to go to university in a couple of years, make lots of friends, have a great social life and everything will be great. It's almost like an escapist fantasy for her.
She has a place at another selective sixth form which has an intake that would be more conducive to a social life and she was initially really keen to go to, but is too scared to go somewhere new (see above re: trauma about moving schools).
Not sure what I'm asking really. Anyone else's DC gone or going to a sixth form where there won't be a social life and with no other social life going on outside of school?