AIBU to send one DC to comprehensive and the other to a grammar?
DD is at our local, excellent comprehensive school. She is academically able but can find social interactions difficult. She enjoys a lot of the extra curriculars and the arts focus at the school. She likes we live near the school and they can walk to school, meet friends and be independent. She are also quite independent in her learning and will naturally push herself. to excel. I don’t think she responds well to a high pressure environment. DD was given the option to sit the entrance exam for a super selective grammar school but chose not to.
DS (y5)is keen to try for the grammar option. He is also very academic but much less inclined to push himself. He will happily coast along at the level of his peers. He is quite sociable and has a good group of friends ( who will be going to the same school DD attends).
DS is a stickler for rule following and gets quite upset when others in his class are disruptive. For this I think the grammar might be a good fit for him. DS is comfortable with the idea of getting the bus to school and wants to go for it (is applying himself to extra homework to prepare etc).
I was happy with our plans but a family member was quite concerned that it is not fair to DD if her brother gets a ‘better’ school than she does.
AIBU to send one to a comp and the other selective?