Ds is due to move from his state primary to an indepedent school in 1 week.
Dh and I have no previous experience on the independent sector and were very excited. However, I now feel, before he has even started that we have made a terrible mistake and that the school is completely wrong for him. Feel that they just couldn't give a toss about us or him.
My reasons are all fairly petty but they seem to have mounted up to a really negative feeling about the school. They are as follows:
When we went to look around, I had arranged it weeks in advance and taken a half day off work. Told when we got there that the head had a meeting somewhere else and we would have to see the deputy.
Arranged for ds's assessment day, again at their convenience, and the week beforehand we were asked to rearrange it for the benefit of someone else.
Arranged again to see the head - another half day. When we arrived, he was nowhere to be found. I was told we were early. I displayed the e-mail which said we were not. Eventually they found him.
It took nearly 3 weeks for them to send out a welcome pack by which time it was the Easter hols. The uniform supplier listed in there no longer supplies it and there is no one at the school who can help so I cannot actually get ds all of his uniform for day 1.
Am I being petty or do these things amount to enough to be hacked off? They don't really affect the quality of the education on offer I guess. What would you do?