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Support needed, switch secondary school decision, bullying.

I'm in year 8, long story short, had two very toxic "best friends", was only with them to be less lonely, got beaten up by some dude and the toxic "friends" recorded me, spread it around in my class. Also tried stealing from me and more. I have people who care about me, but I don't want to stay in my current secondary at sacrifice of safety, and mental health, I'm a sensitive person so this hurt me alot, my head hurts everyday and I have anxiety and paranoia of it all. As of 24/09/2025 the situation is relatively fresh from about a week. I come to TSR to help me to decide whether I should move secondary or not. The school I want to go to is a catholic school, I am a catholic so I feel that I will be more accepted there, I have a few people I know closely from there and they tend to come out with better GCSEs in that school.

You can ask me questions and others to help form an opinion, I could make this decision on my own but I need help and second opinions. I don't want to make a big change for something I mighhtttt regret. It helps if you went to two secondary schools but it's fine if not. Thank you all so much!

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