My dd1 has just started year 10. She's had her names on waiting lists for around a year as was getting increasingly frustrated with her current school/ high rates of absence, turnover and SEN support, and more recently an inability to accommodate her options choices for GCSE. However, after carefully considering the alternative options offered and after her current school managed to rejig things so she can do some options she's reasonably happy with, she decided to stay. I had basically thought we were past the point of no return. I understood the council had reset the waiting lists at the start of term and I hadn't reapplied.
However, they've just emailed me to offer a place at Highgate wood and I'm a bit torn. It's not my dream school, but it feels like it's in a better place than her current school, and is equally local. It's an important year for her and staying where she is has involved a bit of a leap of faith that they'll up their game for the GCSE years. On the other hand moving is an upheaval and another roll of the dice to move.
Her friends are in a similar boat and are considering jumping to a different ship but I don't yet know what they'll decide. She's recently admitted that some of her drive to move schools was about not wanting to be left behind and to steer her own ship. There have also been two recent tragedies at her school which have complicated things emotionally.
I haven't yet told DD about the offer and will obviously be guided by her but just trying to get my head round how to approach it with her. Is it a definite no to moving at this stage, or worth a serious chat with Highgate wood about options, sets etc before making a decision?