Separate board needed for Private Schools?

Isn't "Really Posh Privates" a dating website?

Surely this is just discriminatory and inverse-snobbish? It seems as though people are just irritated by threads about 'posh' schools. Hide the threads if you don't like them. Plenty of people start threads about which state school to choose - each of these threads would be personally irrelevant to almost the whole of MN. How is it different for threads about private schools?

Also:
Leafy Comps (see 'catchment area')
Grubby Multiethnic Comps
Really Posh Privates (see 'beaten up Volvos')...

Mintyy I'm afraid I have to take some responsibility for the appearance of this thread on site stuff as well. The OP was asking how she could get Mumsnet to consider her campaign and I suggested Site Stuff might be the way to bring it to their attention. I should have suggested getting this thread moved.

And a separate topic for Whiney Shoulder Chip Schools.

What about separate boards for:
Super-selective state
Grammar Schools
Academies
Free Schools
Faith Schools
Rural Schools
Boarding schools - subdivided into weekly boarding, termly boarding and fictional (Malory Towers , Greyfriars , St Trinians etc)
Forest schools
Comps - subdivided into 'Bog standard', 'fair banded' 'local' 'sink' 'visited by Prime Minister and advertised on the back of buses'
Community schools
Foundation schools
Academy Converters
Girls schools
Boys schools
Co-ed
High schools
Technical Colleges
School of the Air (to include Australian posters)
PRUs

Ffs, I've just realised that you have posted this in two separate topics, OP! Were you worried you wouldn't get enough people agreeing with you if you only posted it once?

I think it would be a shame to remove 'which school' to a separate board. Surely 'which schoolers' need to get the opinions of people already in a school, who would be more likely to be on the secondary or primary board talking about uniform or unreasonable detentions or whatever, and then the name of a school they know of would pop up and they could contribute. If it was n a separate board they wouldn't go there, and no one would get any answers.

Except from those with axes to grind who seek out refs to particular schools to slag them off.

So many subjects have noting to do with whether the school is private or state - bullying, packed lunches, issues with friends, issues with anxiety over tests, etc etc.

Absolutely ridiculous suggestion. Smacks of inverted snobbery, nothing more. No way would I support this.

Theoriginalsteamingnit couldn't have expressed it better.

Hiding the thread is surely a much easier solution.

I do not agree with this suggestion whatsoever.

Yes - at the moment, I am not interested in threads about year 9 options, year 6 sats, year 7s settling in or year 11 mocks... there are such a lot of specific enquiries which might come out of a board called 'secondary education' that it would be bonkers to start separating them out, I think - we all just need to read the ones which are interesting to us!

This board is called secondary education therefore, it should be open to anyone who wants to discuss secondary education not just those bits of secondary education that are of interest to you.

I tend not to bother to click on threads about girls schools because I have sons but I don't think we should have two different boards one for boys and one for girls.

I'm with MrsSteptoe and Farago - you don't have to click on a thread you don't like the title of and as Mintyy says it just takes a click to hide it.

Here's the Site Issues thread (and iI've linked this oneto that one as well).

A 'Which school?' topic might be better, as requests for school specific information are frequently made for state schools too (eg the two currently running about Lambeth Academy). But I agree with the pp who said that there are too many (often underused) topics already.

The last thing MN needs is more boards. Just hide the thread if you don't like it.

You could make it a 'Which school?' topic.
I'm not convinced the split between state and private would work because sometimes the choice includes schools in both categories.
(Or sometimes it should do - I've seen posts on here from people who only consider private because of preconceptions and have had it gently pointed out to them that there are some excellent state schools in their area too.)

That's a bit discriminatory IMO.
Just because people have the option if sending their child to private school doesn't mean they won't have helpful/interesting views on state ed and vice versa.
(And my dc go to state schools btw)

Takes a nano second to click "hide".

We need fewer topics on Mumsnet, not more.

it's a bad idea because like private schools themselves, it's elitist! we need a comprehensive education board open to all

I would not like to see the boards split. If you don't want to read a particular thread, don't read it. As a non-native, I've learned quite a lot from the education boards here.

Have a separate board. Entry to post on this board is via entrance exam and interview.

I agree with you MrsSteptoe - segregation is not the way to go, secondary education is secondary education, whether you pay for it or not and, lets face it, in a few years we'll all be paying for it one way or another.

I like reading posts from people in independents, grammars and comps - gives you an accurate picture of what is out there and how screwed up education is in this country

I've suggested it on Site Stuff so anyone who would like to see this happen, pls add your support.
And in the interests of balance, perhaps those who feel that it's not the direction in which they want to see Mumsnet going should also contribute their views.