Search Results: transferring schools

I've finished a year currently at my in-state school and have been offered transfer admission to my target out-of-state school.

Option 1: stay in location that you dislike that you've grown up in (don't fit in, have few friends, climate makes you sick frequently for half of the year). Career that you love but will keep you in or near this location until retirement. No student debt as a result of going to a good in-state university.

Option 2: move to dream state/location (also allowing you to start over and much better climate that doesn't make you sick) and transfer to the out-of-state school. Must pick a career somewhat less passionate about. Must pay out-of-state tuition for a university whose overall ranking is much lower (but is quite decent for the chosen career path) resulting in $25,000 of student debt post-graduation.

I'm 14 days away from executing option 2. Am I making a dumb choice?

On May 2017, my kid was picked up at school by a close friend of mine. Because my car had broke down and my child's father was at work. I stayed in the house to watch over my twin babies. My 1st grader came home crying to me. My kid had red marks/bruises on his left shoulder. He had a few scratches on his arms and a bruise on the right thigh. He told me that it was the same kids that bullied him a couple of times which I reported to the principal's office. Those kids haven't changed for the better one bit and gotten worse. I asked my son before of why those kids would pick on him and he told me, "They pick on other classmates too." I asked him again why do they do those things and he replied, "I don't know." I asked him, "Have you ever done anything to them or back at them?" He answered, "No mama, they just always do things to people and laugh."

I talked to the principal many times about the incident of my child getting beat by three other students. She told me that she will talk to those kids and the parents but seems nothing changed. She did not suspend the kids or gsve them their consequence. By the end of the last week of their school, I heard that the principal was being transferred. I am too upset that my child is not safe and nor other students in that school are safe. Because staffs and the principal are supposed to care, teach, and discipline students too.