DH and I have the ongoing conversation about how long we'll stay in the US, when/whether we'll move back to the UK. For many emotional/sentimental/family/familiarity reasons I want the DC to be secondary educated in the UK (they're currently 7 and 4), but we think we might stay in the US to get citizenship to allow freedom of movement and work opportunities for us all (yes very aware of the potential tax implications of this)
DH is not adverse to moving home but at the moment says his only reason would be that I wanted to go and he doesn't see the benefit - he says he isn't dismissing my more emotional reasons for wanting to return and does understand even if he doesn't them himself, so we should also be trying to compare educational advantages, I suppose as that's more a black and white comparison?
But who would you start? I feel league tables only tell you half the story, where do you go to compare the way education is taught, comparison of things like world history, whether a broader but more superficial knowledge base pre university is better or worse....I'm also aware that should the DC want to attend a British University they have to be resident in the UK for 3 years prior to application otherwise they are treated (and charged) as foreign students
Anyone already done this kind of research or has an opinion they'd be willing to share? We're not in a great rush.
FYI we live (and would likely stay) in Los Angeles, we'd be moving back to the SE of England, most likely Brighton or at least vaguely commutable to London
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