Good morning, I have an appointment with the head teacher of my DD school later and I would appreciate any advice you can give me. My DD is 8 and is being moved out of her mainstream P4 class into a composite P4/5 for next term. She was moved already in P3 and didn't cope very well being in with younger P2 children. My DD is quite serious and very mature for her age although with a late December birthday she is one of the youngest in her year.
Last year I rang the Head before the classes were made up to explain my DD was unhappy and would benefit from being back in with her peers, she didn't agree to move her but when the classes were announced she had been put back up, DD was delighted and went on to have a really good year.
This year she has been moved back down and is really upset, she feels she is being punished and treated really unfairly. She has already started to have restless nights and bad dreams.
I'm really upset because they have indicated this year they wished to improve the gender balance (there are a lot of girls in this year)and they want more boys but I know they have moved a girl who has only been at school for one year into this class. There are also several children from outwith the catchment area who only got into school on appeal, yet they historically refuse to reverse their decisions on these cases on the grounds of birthdate. It just seems so unfair as it's the one thing I can't change. Any advice would be great. Thanks for reading. I'm in Scotland btw, not sure if there's a difference.