Hi everyone. My 10 year old son Riley will be starting at secondary school in September. My eldest son Luke is 13 and already at secondary school, he goes to a very good mixed gender school where he has a healthy mix of both boy and girl friends which i think is good. Now my choice really would be to send Riley there as well but he has been telling me he wants to go to a nearby all boys school, he seems quite adament he wants to go there. This particular school has had a bad reputation in the past and was at one time on special measures. I think it has improved a lot in the past couple of years though. The thing is Riley already says to me he hates most of the girls at school and all his friends are boys, so i worry if i let him go to an all boys school he will not be around girls enough to form a better relationship with them like Luke has. I worry that it will be too rough at an all boys. He is already in trouble a lot at school and plays up at home too. I don't want to be the type of mother who won't let her child make any of his own choices but at the sametime my feeling is that i'd prefer he went to the same school as Luke. Any thoughts? Am i being silly worrying about this?
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MiaowTheCat ·
20/02/2013 20:14
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