Ds (12) is currently in his last year of middle school and was due to start at the high school in a rural market town. However, I am having serious doubts about our choice!!! Our opinion of this school was just ‘ok’ when we looked around, GCSE results are 27% 5 to 9. We went ahead and applied as ds said he would like to apply to JCB academy for yr 10 because he is interested in engineering. But I’ve come to realise that this is no longer an option as he has 2 siblings one recently in special school who won’t use transport and I would be doing an impossible amount of driving. There is another option. It’s an other market town but in another county which we’ve looked around and I really like. Seems to have high expectations and good behaviour, mutual respect between pupils and teachers and gcse results (9 to 5) of 57%, great reports from kids and parents who already attend. It does have some practical issues of getting him there but we could work it out. But ds is not wanting to consider it. I know where I would prefer him to go but at the same time don’t know how much pressure to put on him and don’t want to knock his confidence. He’s done really well at middle school, he’s a lovely lad, has flight path predictions of 7, in all the school sports team, prefect etc Current school is fab at celebrating his successes but he does lack confidence. Sorry this is so long!! Just any thoughts would be appreciated as its all constantly whirring around my head!! Thanks