I live in an awkward area, inbetween a very middle class village with an oversubscribed outstanding school about a mile away we are not in catchment for, and we are in catchment for 2 very deprived area schools also about a mile away. Benefits of the catchment schools are that they have smaller class sizes, and presumably more funding via pupil premium?
I have two primary teacher friends I have discussed this with, one is strongly against the deprived area schools, saying in those he's worked at there have always been problems such as aggressive drug dealing parents, poorer pupil behaviour etc and he would not have his children in any of those deprived schools he has taught in. Another teacher friend claims the only difference is snobbery and the deprived area schools will likely have much better resources and smaller class sizes.
I'd like to put this question to other primary school teachers, would you send your child to your school? IS it just a matter of snobbery? This is the kind of thing that is debated a lot at babygroups but I need opinions from actual teachers.
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slappinthebass · 24/04/2019 22:04
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