It's that time of year where lots of kids have been in Reception/school nursery for a month or so. Most kids I know have settled in well, which is brilliant, but I definitely know a handful who haven't.
I don't get why people will cling to their assigned primary, as if it's God's personal gift to them, when the school in question is a bad fit for their child. Parents telling me how great their school is and in the same breath telling me that their kid cries screams and fights every morning at drop off, and tells them that they hate it at school, yet the parent is happy with the school and won't move them. It really sucks when you personally know the child, and you watch them go from a well adjusted, happy child, to an anxious shell of themselves.
Parents where extreme things have been threatened or carried out (I.e: daily isolation or expulsion actioned or threatened for a previously fine 5 year old) and yet the parents are more interested in trying to bend the iron will of the school than they are in moving little jimmy\jemima\insert-child's-name-here to a school that will actually treat them like a human being.
Particularly in my area, there are lots of primaries, and the birthrate is low, so there are several genuinely lovely, half full nearby primaries that kids could be moved to, yet parents seem more horrified by the commute potentially taking an extra minute than they are by leaving their child at a school that is destroying their mental health.
People who were left at schools that didn't suit them, why do you think your parents did it, and how did it affect you? People who know parents like this, genuinely, why won't these people move their kids?