Transitionsing from a US High School to a Scottish Secondary School?

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

When I did it (many, many years ago), it was no problem, but I was a lot younger than your son will be and pretty much grew up in the UK system.

For what it's worth, my opinion, albeit only from talking to the guys that worked for me up there, is that on the whole, the Scottish education system was highly regarded, just that the politicians have started to change things and in the process are starting to really screw things up where they are changing things they had already changed before the changes were fully implemented, it's a bit chaotic up there.

You're right about IB schools, I could only find 4 in the whole of Scotland, 2 in Edinburgh and the others in Fife and Aberdeen (even further from Glasgow).

If you decide to live in Edinburgh, there is a pretty good rail service between there and Glasgow (every 15 minutes, - takes just under an hour) but it would be quite a chunk to add to your working day, but many people work on the train to and from work and some employers regard this as working time, so maybe not so bad.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team

Apart from politicians messing up the UK's education system (No shock there). many state schools are dumps that the RSPCA would prosecute you for if you sent a dog there.

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UNDERAGE SEX, but I suppose the mummies and daddies have to get their drug money from somewhere

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WARNING - SCOTTISH LANGUAGE - The HUMOUR (with a U)