We've had a lot of problems (ranging from minor to extremely serious safeguarding issues) with the school dd is in last yr (reception). We even got to the point of looking round other schools but because of logistics with ds already being at a different school we didn't move her. Also she seemed happy on the whole. One of the issues to us was that certainly in reading she wasn't being pushed at all. She's reading ORT level 5 at school (after a lot of pushing) and yet reading things like Charlie and the chocolate factory, Charlottes Web etc at home. Totally understanding them and loving them. This summer she's read her way through the library and loving it. I should point out shes in a yrR/yr1 class so kept the same teacher that she had last year.
She started yr 1 yesterday and although the book sent home for reading was easy the question was a challenge, find the moral in the story. So I thought they've worked out she needs more stretching. Also, at pick up today, her teacher made a point of speaking to me to tell me that they've decided to give her a 30 min slot per week when she can speak to an adult of her choice about anything that is bothering her (she's deals with huge amounts of things at home cos of ds and school didn't support that last year which affected friendships). I came away feeling positive, that they're trying at last. But todays book is easy and there is no challenging question, there is no question at all. Just read the book basically.
Get her to bed, she seems fine. Then whilst getting ds to bed we hear stiffled crying. Go into her and shes in floods of tears. She thought she was going to learn something in yr 1 (her words not mind). She thought that she was going to learn some maths and get to do some writing and spellings. She's apparently not going to the toilet in case she misses the thing she is going to learn. But she's not learnt anything and doesn't want to go back to school again just to sit there being told what the number 28 is and how to spell "and". She has come home with a list of spellings for the whole term today. She can already spell them all. She knows her numbers, she wants to "do sums". She's not taking after me on this, believe me, sounds like an easy life to me not learning in school!
The knee jerk reaction is to go straight to the private school she's been offered a funded place at and somehow work out the travel logistics and keep up with the jones's. But the brain is sort of saying this is only day 2, of course she's not learning anything yet. But then this teacher knows dd, she should know that she can spell all these words, the books are way to easy and she knows her numbers.
So, reading all this and being emotionally detached, what would you do? Would you wait until half term, like you had decided during the holidays, see if things improve and then go into school and effectively give them until Christmas to sort it out? Or would you just cut your loses and move her now and work out the logisitics and keeping up with the jones's issues?