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My DS wants to leave sixth form - what best to do?

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Louburn05 · 28/01/2019 10:14

I though I had posted this but will try again.
My DS is desperately unhappy at school. She joined a new sixth form and can't seem to make any friends. She says she feels isolated and lonely and hates going to school. She did seem to have made a group of friends but they don't include her in anything and have become active in excluding her. Whispering about where they're going and then of course it's all on social media that they're out together.

She was very happy in her old school but thought a change and a move to a mixed sixth form (she was in a girl's school) would be good. She enjoys her A levels and is doing well. But she cries most days and I struggle to get her to school. She's a lovely, kind girl but this is destroying the little confidence she has and making her anxious and deeply unhappy. It's too late for her to rejoin her old school as the boards are different. She's now asking to home school. I don't know how best to help and I'm worried about the effect this is having on her well being.

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TeenTimesTwo · 28/01/2019 14:28

She can restart elsewhere in September, so could go back to previous school a year behind (if they'll have her).

I'm not sure you can 'officially' home school if you start it after GCSEs, so there could be an impact to child benefit if she drops out between now and September.

However you could do it to keep things ticking over and she could do some part time paid / voluntary work as well to keep her busy maybe?

Has she been to see pastoral care in current school, and also tried joining some new clubs/activities to make a different group of friends?

billybagpuss · 28/01/2019 14:37

This was me a couple of years ago, my DD started again at a new school in the September and it was honestly the best thing she could have done.

If she's crying daily it might be something deeper and worth popping her to the GP, its around this time many many of my DD's friends (both DD's) were suffering from depression.

If she's doing ok at the study and you can come to some arrangement with her it is worth trying to persevere, its such a small amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Y13 tends to be much better than Y12 socially. Y12 is a strange year with loads of people going through this sort of thing.

Good luck

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