Please don't anyone take this as a personal slight.
I am aware there may be a lack of suitable schools, especially in rural areas, and some independent schools offer a discount on fees.
However, I can't help but think on the whole it's not in the best interest of the child.
My mum was a teacher at my secondary school. I transferred there in year 9 after the bullying at the initial secondary I attended didn't show any signs of abating. In hindsight, it was the worst thing we could have done. The relationship between us was intense and stifled, she knew too much about me and I knew too much about her!
It was the 'usual' things - awkwardness about boyfriends, awkwardness about any misbehaviour of mine being reported back to her (very mild things but still) personal questions, difficulty with friends and home visits/sleepovers - but also, and harder to articulate, I feel as if in some ways it squashed me down and made it harder to properly 'grow up.' That could just have been my mum though.
However, with the intenseness about safeguarding, it does put teachers and pupils in a yet still more awkward position.
AIBU to think it's not quite appropriate?
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To think it's perhaps a conflict of interest for children to attend schools where parents are teachers
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purplemoonlight · 17/06/2016 07:59
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