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Son doesn't want to leave his friends, we're considering Sri Gayatri e-Techno near home

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My worry is mostly about him, not the school. He is 11 and has been with the same bunch of boys since class 1. When we brought up Sri Gayatri e-Techno, which is a short walk from our place in Puppalaguda, he said he would rather wake up early every day than start again. The current commute is close to an hour each way and he is exhausted by evening. If you moved your child at about this age, were you glad you did it, or did you regret it?

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  • ochre_chai_9692

    Before deciding, ask the school if he can sit in for one day. When kids switch, what they dread is lunch break with no one to sit with, so seeing the new place on a normal day helps a lot. Is anyone from his current class also moving?

    • quiet_pool_7488

      Replying to @ivory_pebble_1060

      Did they allow that for you? We asked two schools last year for our son, and one said yes straight away while the other said only after admission was confirmed. It is worth asking early.

  • lagoon_sandal_2087

    11 is a decent age to move tbh. by 14-15 the groups are fixed. and an hour less in traffic means more sleep, don't underestimate that 😅

  • dusk_chai_8722

    Our daughter is in college now, so this is from some years back, but the friends who mattered to her stayed in touch even after school changed. The ones who drifted would probably have drifted anyway. How far is the current school from your home? If it is close enough for weekend meetups, that may soften the move for him.

  • ochre_diary_814

    Ask him to describe an ordinary day at his present school, then visit the new one on a working day and look for those same pieces: where they eat, who they sit with, what happens in the break. That will tell you more than the brochure. It also gives him something concrete to compare instead of just the idea of leaving.

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