“Should I let my eccentric child switch schools?”
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Sometimes you can’t figure it out on your own and you could use some advice. So every week a reader talks about her dilemma.
Richelle (39) lives with Bram (40) and is the mother of Thomas (8).
Laurens is only eight and he is already being looked at and jeered at everywhere. He likes dresses and ballet, doesn’t understand football and wrestling. He reads piles of books, but avoids the neighborhood playground. Not because he’s shy, he just prefers having adult conversations over scrambling with kids.
Free choice
My friend Bram and I leave him free in his choices, both in terms of clothing and sports preference. Bram has tried, in the past, to let Thomas kick a ball or pick out a pair of cool sneakers. Maybe he liked it, but he didn’t know it yet. It fell on deaf ears. Thomas preferred to pick the daisies from the football field and wear nothing but boots.
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Other school
We suspect – emphatically regardless of his preferences – a mild autism spectrum disorder, which is now being investigated. Above all, we are very proud of our wayward child. His classmates think otherwise, so Thomas has been bullied since grade 3. They call him gay and dork and take his stuff. The teachers do what they can against it, but they don’t have an eye on what happens outside the fence around the school.
“Even on the street my child is jeered at by strange children”
The bullying has now become so bad that it is almost impossible to get Thomas to go to school. I agree with him. Bram and I are considering sending him to another school, where the ideas may be a bit more free. But even on the street my child is jeered at by strange children, what is the chance that things will go better at another school?”
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