A plea to anyone moving house!

[Flamesparrow]

Please tell your child's best school friend's parent if your child is leaving the school.

I have to break the news to DD tonight that her bestest friend isn't just off sick, she has left, and I think left the area completely.

I would have sorted some sort of tea party had I known

It doesn't matter if you aren't friends with the parent.

What weird behaviour on the part of the school and/or the parents. Normally if a child in DD's class is leaving, long term, they have a little chat about it at circle time to give the kids a chance to say goodbye.

Poor DD

I find it incredible that this child left. The only reason I have heard this happen wi when domestic violence is involved which I hope isn't the case.

DD knew she was moving eventually, but she thought it was the end of the school year as that is what the friend had said (I didn't completely believe it was happening as the same friend also had her mum die and come back to life one week, found her pet hamster in the road - she had no hamster ).

The lack of warning is sh*t though. Another one of her friends left last week - they found out ON his last day, and that was only because his mum brought in sweets.

Would the girl have gone into emergency foster care, perhaps?

Children do need to know as they find it hard to adjust.

Ah that's sad for your dd, Flame.

DD and DS eventually will be going to school with quite a high proportion of army children so guess we will have to get used to this.

I think there is some back story 5gomad. Now I know I am piecing together bits of convs overheard in the playground about getting sorted etc, so it clearly wasn't a big rush thing, but I got the feeling there was something in the background iyswim.

I dunno. All I know is I will have a heartbroken DD.

Poor DD!
And am I right in remembering that she's not the sort of little girl who will have a different bestest friend from one day to the next?

In that case, maybe done on the quiet so as to stop info being spread?

Poor DD

Oh, I'm sorry for your DD Flamesparrow. School can be hard enough for children without this sort of thoughtlessness.

This happened to DS#1. In Yr 4. He had a very close friend whom he thought of as a brother (they used to say they wanted to be brothers ). His mum decided to move right away from the area during the summer holidays. She didn't tell us. He came into school and announced he was only there for 2 days. DS was devestated. I honestly think it blighted school for him for much of that year. And there were all kinds of plans for him to come back and see DS that came to nothing for one reason and another. All very sad and very messy.