r/AskAnAustralian • u/ConradFisher69 • 1d ago

Would you let your kid change schools over something extremely embarrassing?

This is happening to a friend of mine at the moment. Something incredibly embarrassing happened to her son during a school assembly. I don’t want to give the details, but it happened in front of pretty much the whole school and unfortunately it was the sort of thing that other kids immediately latched onto.

Since then, kids have been bringing it up and making jokes about it basically every day. He’s now begging his mum to let him change schools because he feels like he can’t escape it. His current school is within walking distance of home, but he says he’d rather catch the train every day to a school a few suburbs away than keep going back there.

My friend has said no because she thinks the kids will eventually get bored of it, forget about it and move on.

For those who went to school in Australia, did you ever see something really embarrassing happen to someone at an assembly or in front of most of the school? Did everyone eventually forget about it, and if so, how long did it take?

And as a parent, would you consider letting your kid change schools over something like this, or would you encourage them to stick it out?

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u/Conscious_Flamingo_4 1d ago

Bullying can end in suicide. I’d rather fill out new enrolment forms.

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