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secondary education - not privates school choices

186 replies

dementedma · 25/02/2014 21:53

Ok, so where can I find threads about secondary education that isn't an angst ridden should ds/dd go to this private school or that private school?
Ds attends local state school. Does anyone else on MN do this or is it just me?

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LadyMuck · 26/02/2014 17:08

I think that 8% is an average at all ages across the country. Isn't the figure closer to 40% in Richmond for 11+?

usualsuspect33 · 26/02/2014 17:04

Mine all went to the local comp.

MN makes me feel like I did it wrong.

fourcorneredcircle · 26/02/2014 17:02

Hmmm, how long do you think we need to leave it chaz?

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 26/02/2014 16:58

Someone did suggest a private school board and the whole thing ended up in tears when the instigator of the thread went off the rails a bit. MN might be a bit sensitive (twitchy and hitting the gin) if that idea was floated again...

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 16:55

My favourite threads are the ones where people want paid-for education but haven't got the money to pay for it and somehow don't understand that it's like paying for any sort of goods and services, as opposed to education wot is provided free for the good of all, innit.

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:54

Good forbid. Whatever next? Two-tier education system?

fourcorneredcircle · 26/02/2014 16:53

Their own board?! This will end badly. We will be accused of trying to create a two tier mumsnet system.

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 16:49

I felt actual guilt about the lack of angst when DD1's application went in. Sending her to a nearby school with such a chance of getting in felt like the easy lazy option that was surely Wrong.

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:44

you're^ argh

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:43

Funny you should say that, was thinking of starting a business 'customising' arriviste looking family estates do shout if your interested. I even supply holey, labrador-infused blankets for the boot.

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:41

Oh I loved the 'best school in the world thread'. Maybe we should let the 8% stay? They really do need their own board though.

Wish you could bottle that sangfroid mother, we could carpet-bomb certain postcodes Wink

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 16:37

We don't even have a beaten-up old Volvo. Really, I should be excommunicated from MN.

mimbleandlittlemy · 26/02/2014 16:35

Oh for Pete's sake! No mines either? That's it. We're going to have to get in to Westminster as it's the best school in the world (we actually went round and it isn't...).

motherinferior · 26/02/2014 16:33

Signing in: my older daughter goes to a non-leafy comp which admittedly isn't the closest to us (we're in SE London) but is the one after that and has a huge catchment area because people still huff about it. I couldn't even manage angst with her application - with her sister's I can't even remember which day we hear, because it's such a given.

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:32
Grin
fourcorneredcircle · 26/02/2014 16:31

"I say you sir, are a cake!" snigger

TalkinPeace · 26/02/2014 16:29

busted !
I did offer to be a governor Wink

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:29

sent the headmaster cake. Just saying 'cake' wouldn't do it.

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:28

Nor down mines, apparently mimble It's the Yummy mummy mafia gone mad!

Come on Talk fess up. I bet you handwrote your application on pretty notepaper with fwuffy kittens and said the headmaster cake

TalkinPeace · 26/02/2014 16:21

application form in this LEA is three schools

pretty much guaranteed catchment place
over 90% get their first choice even if its not catchment

the joy of no segregated state schools round here !

mimbleandlittlemy · 26/02/2014 16:19

I'm sorry - I don't understand. Do you mean you aren't supposed to send your child up the chimney...?? Grin

fourcorneredcircle · 26/02/2014 16:07

Makes two of us then. I am clearly terrible lord and master too.

fideline · 26/02/2014 16:05

Mind you, I managed to silence a group of Surrey-broker-belt-mums at Christmas by mentioning that I didn't do my children's h/work for them. Might as well have said I starved them and sent them up chimneys. I am clearly slack mum.

fourcorneredcircle · 26/02/2014 16:00

I know. It's a window in a world...

fideline · 26/02/2014 15:57

I find it all baffling four and a little shall we say 'over-involved' but hey ho.

I love the 'hand written letter' thread though Grin