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What are we supposed to do? Help, please? Normally I am a very decisive person, but in this case, I'm not sure?
Our son will be promoted to grade 7 soon and we are trying to make up our mind where to send him for junior high. I want him to go to a private school that he attended for Kindergarten and grade 1. My son wants to attend the one and only Middle School in our little town. Students from eight feeder schools will attend this school, including most of his classmates. He just turned 12 and made such close friendships with almost his classmates. His wish to go to this school is so great that I am afraid that if I force him to go to the private school, I might not be doing the right thing for him. I don't know what to do.
Correction: .... almost all his classmates.
We have two neighborhood kids who hated this school. One ended up changing school in the middle of the school year and the other ended up being schooled at home (still controled by the school, so not exactly homeschooling). Another friend of ours told us that his son's teacher got very offfended when he photocopied his work before turning it in, because the last time he turned in his work, the teacher said that he never received it.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
well in my personal opinion i would not force him to go to a school that he does not want to go to because it is very important to have friends and if all his friends will be attending the middle school in your town then i think that it would be a very good idea to let him be in the one school where he feels comfortable in with the rest of his classmates. i know cause when i was young and had just gotten out of grade school then i had to attend middle school but we have two middle schools in my city so all my friends and all my classmates from my grade school went to the middle school in the west part of our city while i was forced to attend the middle school in the east part of our city just due to where we lived in the Proximity of our city and so i had to attend a brand new school where i did not know anybody and it was not a good feeling cause i felt all alone there so i am pretty sure i know what your son would be feeling too if you forced him to go to a school that he does not want to go to. having your friends around and people that you know makes attending school there alot better and also makes for better grades too at a school where he feels more comfortable at and also his studies would not suffer either.
- 1 decade ago
Listen to your son. Let him go. Private schools are not always better. Where I grew up, the private catholic girls are now mostly knocked up or unemployed or jailed.
Your son will resent you BIG TIME. He can never get these years back.
