My DS(10) is summer born, and I'd like him to redo year 6 at a new school. None of the local state schools are open to this, but 2 of the independents are.
DS has a BF. BF is lovely, but super-competitive and pretty much every conversation I hear between them contains some declaration of BF's superiority over DS, whether it be height, no. of cars his dad owns, whatever... This has been going on for years and I pull him up on it when I hear him but I think DS just ignores it as he's so used to it. In short, it's not a massively healthy relationship and I was thinking separate schools would be a blessing.
I know BF is going to one of the schools in Year 7 so visited the other hoping we'd love it but we don't. The school BF is going to just looks perfect for DS too. Now really stuck as to what to do . It's a small school so I'm sure they'd see a fair bit of each other so just not sure what to do.
Has anyone got any experience of repeating years and impact on friendships that they could impart!