Greetings!

I'm hoping that the glocals community can help me find an answer to a delicate question regarding attending Swiss public schools.

When my family moved here, it was at the beginning of the school year and my wife (diplomat at UN) registered our son in a school in Geneva. He's had a hard time. Still struggling, but doing well. His classmates seem to like him a lot.

We've been looking at moving to France, but we don't want to uproot our son from his class environment if at all possible. He'd have to start all over making friends and so on.

Someone told me ("friend of a friend") that she knew someone who attended a Swiss public school and then moved to France and got permission from the school's director (or someone) for her child to continue at the same school, for the same reason I don't want to move our son.

Yesterday, a friend told me of something in France called a "Derogation" which are exceptions to the "your school is here" rule in France, but since this would be a cross-border question, not sure if that applies.

Does anyone have any information on this? Have you or has anyone you know dealt with this situation?

I'd be really grateful for any info.

Thanks!