I have three children. My oldest is in year three and is very happy at his state school. He has a great group of friends. He is slightly behind where he should be academically but the school have been very supportive and give additional support.
My middle child is in year one and is having a completely different experience. There are a lot of children with behavioural problems in his class and he gets physically hurt a lot, to the extent he just thinks it normal now. I’ve obviously been in the school and Head and class teacher have taken it very seriously. The children seem to leave him alone for a couple of days and it then starts again. The lunchtime supervision seems inadequate.
He’s always been a bright and curious child but he is becoming angry. He has also started retaliating at school, which although I do understand why, he shouldn’t be behaving this way. He is definitely not achieving his potential academically either.
My youngest is due to start the same school in two years time.
We cannot afford private school ourselves but my parents have offered to pay for my middle child. My oldest child wouldn’t want to move schools anyway so I don’t think they would mind but I have no idea how my youngest will fair.
Would I be unreasonable to take them up on their very kind offer? I worry it’s not fair on my other two children but I also don’t want to deprive him of something that could be fantastic for him.
Any advice greatly appreciated