After reading these forums i am really concerned now. We are supposed to be relocating to live in the Lot region with in a month or two. Our house is sold, we intended to rent whilst looking, we already have seen a couple of properties we like the look of, with an agent we know, on the internet. Our children are 14, 11, 9. I was always under the impression that the schools in France were strict, but excellent, is this untrue? I began to feel sick reading through the posted comments made, I thought I was improving their lives by moving. My children do not know an french yet, my 13 year old does a very miniscule amount at his senior school, I can just about get by, I can read it better than I can speak, but only very basic stuff. I had intended to have home tuition for us all when we arrive. My son was happy to do extra hours at school to catch up and understood he will most likely be doing an extra year/s. But to place them into what sounds like a miserable, backward, degrading nightmare, partly because of their age and lack of french, instead of a school that will encourage hard work and be honest ( which I expected), WELL I feel deflated, scared and concerned. Do you really believe we should not even think of moving to France for our children's sake?[:(] Ickythump[:|]
