Separate Private Schools board please

Well done Kate :)

Who let the mouse in??

Good decision, MNHQ.

diablo Its alright, it all got a bit crazy here last night . Tis a tough yr and ds is working his socks off, which makes really annoyed when people say they we are "buying results" they're obvioysly not selling them at our school! Good luck to your ds in his GCSEs
oops!Forgot they only do those in state schools!

Sorry Gunznroses - getting paranoid in my old age.

13+ CE made my DS. He didn't win a scholarship so knew that he had to do well in CE to make sure he was in top sets. It was hard year but when the results came, he was delighted. It's all the work he put in there that means he's doing so well now.

I also think my local town Air Cadets do the flying for 14 years plus, so it's something a fair few boys and girls get to do regardless of school.

We'll done MumsnetHQ.

good news

Good for you, MNHQ.

Glad to here it!

Thank you Kate.
Pleased that common sense has prevailed.

It's OK, maryz the deleted posts were in no way relevant to the arrangement of MN talk topics, whether more boards are needed to cover education, and if so whether separating schools by method of funding them is a sensible way to do so.

My God, if anyone with a child at public school had suggested a separate topic for private education all hell would have broken loose, with cries of 'so you even want segregation of rich children from poor children on MN now, as well?'

It's a daft idea and unnecessary. You don't need to click on the thread if you don't think it applies to you or interests you. But the trouble is, many people will click on those threads, just so they can be a fly on the wall - and then get all indignant and enraged about it. And if you enjoy that kind of thing then you'll still click on the threads no matter what topic they are in.

We already have far too many topic headings that no-one uses as it is.

Isn't there an algorithm or something to establish what percentage of post deletions will render a thread utterly pointless? Because I think we're there.

Well that is amusing .

Deary me. Utter farce is a phrase that comes to mind.

As I said, I am not a fan of segregated education, but I really never envisaged op's fairly innocuous initial posts leading to this sorry state of affairs .

Were all those message deletions really necessary HQ, or are people not allowed to have a bit of a tiff on here any more?

I think you said you had never been deleted on a private school thread

Omg, have been deleted and I don't even remember what I said! how bizarre. What a funny little forum Mumsnet is these days.

Very good, iWasBorn

No we pop off to our place abroad...

(DH is foreign and so we go to visit his family)

Feels like still on way home from work and I've just wandered into the Subway store at station, and just heard the person in front of me just asking for an "extra long irony sub with extra irony trimmings please"

'Separate Private Schools board please'

Ok Miss, huge entitlement dollop for that demand coming right up, although are you sure you wouldn't like to adjust that order a little bit though, like most of the other customer's requests are?

'I hate chillis as they are divisive and raise temperatures, so make sure you smother it with that too.'

Ok Miss, extra large dollop of very strange way of thinking coming right up too then.

'I care about every single topping just as equally but I'm telling you now, if it's one of my own on your sub, you should shit yourself'

Erm, ok Miss, just so I know (as that sounds pretty scary tbh Miss), which branch do you work at?

'Like I'd tell YOU? And it's Mrs Bright to you BTW'

I'm too scared to answer the irony in that one Miss, I mean Mrs, Bright as otherwise it might be me getting sacked from here.

'Good, as you've got no right to a view different to mine anyway never mind anything like an actual discussion. And no, I dont need want chips with that'

Ah, but do you just take the tent down to Cornwall for holidays, Chaz?

Hmm, possibly. But I've had "chip on the shoulder" too, so I'll let "chippy" pass.

Can we have a separate topic for threads which are deleted to the point they are indecipherable

Ah I understand the bingo card now and no - we don't have a Volvo nor are my DC sensitive and misunderstood

I have no issue with people objecting to private schools. I can see that some of the justification would make you go

Calling someone 'chippy' though, when they are oh so clearly chippy, shouldn't be legs 11 though, Curlew.