Dd is in Yr 7 at a bog standard London comp, which is exactly what I wanted for her and am quite happy.
There is a but, though, which is that she is a top level student in every subject and I am worried that she will not reach her full academic potential at this school because they, quite understandably, are very keen to get as high a number as possible passing 5 gcses inc Eng and Maths at A-C, and I suspect that they are happy to allow their best pupils to get, say, 11 gcses at all sorts of grades.
I have no doubt that dd would be an A/A* student at private or grammar school, but I don't want her to go to that kind of a school!
What do people do to make sure that very clever children are being stretched (not pushed) at state secondary?
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Mintyy · 10/07/2013 20:32
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