It's a week on from primary offer and I feel worse than I did last week. Wonder if anyone who has been there can advise when it will feel better.
My situation is my youngest has missed out on a place in our local village catchment school narrowly on distance. His sister is in year 6, so doesn't count for sibling priority. More galling is the school is changing it's admission criteria for next year to catchment priority over siblings ( it is an academy so can set it's own admissions arrangements). So he is unluckily stuck in a large year group, between two years that he would have got into the school. We are first on the waiting list, but when I asked the school said they'd never experienced any movement once places offered.
We are really lucky that we did get our second choice school, and consequently my husband doesn't understand why I am still feeling upset. I am just worried and sad that my son now will go to a strange school knowing nobody, instead of the school he's been in on many occasions with children he knows from preschool.
I know it's irrational, but needed to get it out!