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My hope for dd going to grammar school

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Sarem · 20/12/2011 09:45

is that she Won't feel embarrassed for being clever anymore, that she won't be called weird or a clever clogs anymore for working hard and doing well. Am I deluded?

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kritur · 20/12/2011 20:20

I still got called a swot at grammar school but it wasn't anything like the level I encountered before that. It was also never really particularly nasty. That was in the 90s though, I suspet grammar schools are far more exclusive these days but bullying has also got more sophisticated.....

gazzalw · 20/12/2011 16:10

Not sure. My SIL was very,very bright at a Grammar School and still got teased and called a 'swot'.
But of course many of us found that we weren't quite as clever as we thought once we'd got to grammar school - that was a bit of a shock!