You've had lots of good advice already. I'd just like to hammer that the rest of the school year is too long to expect an 8yo to wait until he can be in an appropriate environment. That might work for an adult, maybe, though I've been reduced to tears in circs not dissimilar to those puffin talks about, and I couldn't do most of a year! But he's 8. Something needs to change now.

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