My son and DIL are considering changing my grandson’s school. He has just started Year 8 at a fairly high profile London day school, where he has been a pupil since he was 7. He was happy enough in the juniors, but is finding the senior school hard. It’s selective, and it’s very high achieving. He is by no means among the brightest, and is apt not to try at things he is not really interested in, like maths. He likes sport, but is not particularly good at it.
Of course his Year 7 was really messed about by Covid, so in a way this year is his first proper year as a senior. Other children seem to be managing much better, though. His parents think he might be better at a comprehensive where competition and achievement is less important, but he’s not fond of change, and changing schools is a major event. (For me it would have been traumatic.) They are trying so hard to do the right thing, but it is a major step that could go horribly wrong. I haven’t heard what the boy himself thinks.
Does anyone have experience of this situation?
