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Sixth-form girl living alone

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BoboChic · 16/03/2017 10:13

Do you think that a private mixed sixth form should admit a new pupil who will be living alone in a small rented apartment during the week, returning home to her parents at the weekend?

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Trifleorbust · 17/03/2017 11:12

You are 100% inventing this 'cultural consensus'. It isn't a 'consensus', it is an assumption based on ignorance. That is their own problem, unless it was a school rule.

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 11:12

I'm not the one doing the bashing. I'm a curious observer!

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ealingwestmum · 17/03/2017 11:11

Even for those that are total anti private school, don't think many would buy your weird bashing based on the zero facts provided to prove the school was in the wrong.

That private schools are full or feckless teenagers and parents...maybe. but not based on your argument alone.

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 11:09

Clearly the parents who are now challenging the school believed that there was that rule. I don't know! But the cultural consensus that it was a normal fact of school life exists.

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Trifleorbust · 17/03/2017 11:06

It isn't relevant unless they did have this rule. Did they?

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 11:04

There is nothing to prevent a private school from having a rule that pupils must live with a parent during term time.

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Trifleorbust · 17/03/2017 11:01

There is consensus on the obvious: if the school committed to letting parents know if a student lived alone, they would have been breaking the law. If the school rules said students had to live with a parent during term time and then admitted a child who didn't, them either they or their rules were wrong (may have been open to legal challenge). Either way, you don't have the relevant information, do you?

ealingwestmum · 17/03/2017 11:00

This thread has amply proven that the OP cannot answer a straight question.

finagler · 17/03/2017 10:59

it keeps coming up on my watched threads as I posted right at the beginning

its kind of fascinating that its still going

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 10:58

If you don't care, why post on the thread? Just stay away from the discussion (which clearly does create a lot of feeling and confusion).

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finagler · 17/03/2017 10:57

yes exactly so what is the point of the thread?

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 10:56

Because - as this thread has amply proven - there is not consensus on the issue. There are strongly held opinions, many assumptions and schools are perfectly entitled to have their own rules on the matter.

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finagler · 17/03/2017 10:55

who cares?!?

Trifleorbust · 17/03/2017 10:55

So why are you posting if you know that question is unanswerable?

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 10:54

So the issue boils down to whether or not the parents were in the right or in the wrong to assume that the school had verified that all pupils lived with a parent during term time. And none of us on this thread can know that since we do not have the school rule book.

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finagler · 17/03/2017 10:54

this is an odd thread

no laws have been broken

why do you care so much

Trifleorbust · 17/03/2017 10:52

What is your point?

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 10:52

I know, and that is my point.

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Trifleorbust · 17/03/2017 10:49

Maybe the girl broke the law herself since she did reveal that fact to her fellow pupils

Oh dear god. Desperation off. You don't break the law by revealing your own personal information Hmm

Annesmyth123 · 17/03/2017 10:49

The girl can reveal her own personal information. She didn't break the law.

readthethread · 17/03/2017 10:48

Why are you incapable of understanding that the school breached the trust that parents had placed in it to ensure all pupils were living with their families?

the parents ASSUMED. wrongly.

Annesmyth123 · 17/03/2017 10:48

Add message | Report | Message poster BoboChic Fri 17-Mar-17 10:36:03
Why are you incapable of understanding that the school breached the trust that parents had placed in it to ensure all pupils were living with their families?

So what do you mean by that?

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BoboChic · 17/03/2017 10:47

The law clearly wasn't broken since pupils did not tell their parents that their fellow pupil was living alone.

Maybe the girl broke the law herself since she did reveal that fact to her fellow pupils?

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WateryTart · 17/03/2017 10:47

I find it hard to believe that you are as ignorant as you appear, OP. Do you have comprehension difficulties?

Why are you incapable of understanding that the school breached the trust that parents had placed in it to ensure all pupils were living with their families?

Because they didn't. You have been told God knows how many times that it isn't the school's responsibility. Never was, never will be.

readthethread · 17/03/2017 10:47

imo it's irrelevant where this girl was living, that was an issue between the girl's parents and the school. It's not ideal but i think it is ok for the school to "allow" it and also to not "inform" the other parents. It's a private living arrangement.

The other children, at sixth form should be responsible enough to do the work required to meet their expected grades. their parents should be monitoring them close enough to ensure they are.

My friend's parents owned 3 pubs. Every weekend we would go to one of them, my friend was usually managing one Shock - we would drink, party and crash there. Should the school have informed our parents that my friend was managing a pub every saturday night and we effectively had free rein? Of course i told my mum where we were but she assumed her parents were there and i didn't correct her!

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