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Parents in the North need to be more pushy like their Southern counterparts.

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Sixisthemagicnumber · 06/12/2016 07:32

According to the BBC breakfast news a new study has found that parents in the North are not pushy enough with their children's education and they need to be more like Southern parents.
Apparently children in the North are doing less well in Secondary school and this is due to their parents not pushing them hard enough.
They haven't even bothered to take into consideration the vast funding differences between schools in the North and the South Hmm

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troutsprout · 06/12/2016 08:05

Did they debate whether parents in the south could do with actually backing off a bit from all that frantic pushing?...for the sake of mental health?

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Sixisthemagicnumber · 06/12/2016 07:57

Thinking about when my son sat his 11+ in the North: 1200 boys turned up on exam day to try and secure one of only 170 places. Some of those boys were under such pressure that they were in tears at the end of the exam and looked dreadful. My son told me that 2 boys out of his room of around 20 boys had been crying during the exams. I don't know how pushy they want some parents to be. A lot of Parents can help their children at primary school level but less so at senior level which is when the North / South divide widens so I would say the problem is more school inequality than parental differences.

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Sixisthemagicnumber · 06/12/2016 07:48

Ooh, I didn't see the web article four, I just heard it on the BBC news on the to. Going to have a read and hope it is more detailed.

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fourcorneredcircle · 06/12/2016 07:46

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38207685

Although something has changed in this article since I read it yesterday... yesterday there was a paragraph that said something a long the lines of "however, children in the north on average have better mental health and are happier" (I kid you not!)

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Sixisthemagicnumber · 06/12/2016 07:37

Nor did they mention other factors including the fact that the South possibly has more graduate parents as a percentage and more children who have come from overseas to study here.

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