Separate Private Schools board please

Ah ah. Seeker obviously has a new username. I don't post much on education anymore. Got fed up of the never the twain shall meet, same old arguments.

Chips have already been mentioned, curlew.

I wasn't the first, just confirming.

Seeker is closer than you think diabolo

Why is there an education board as well as specific primary and secondary boards? Seems a duplication.
Could rename the education board "which school" board, ie the mumsnet version of trip advisor for schools! But for all schools... Then the primary and secondary boards could revert to issues re school, kids, homework, exams

What happened to seeker mintyy? Did she leave because of her weird stalker? I didn't agree with most of what she said, but it certainly made for a lively debate.

I suggest you all go and look at episode six of Russel Howard which will be available on BBC Iplayer for one more day only.

The guest. The surprise. He epitomizes the type of people in power in Britain today.

And on the Chris Evans show this morning, they were debating whether teens not voting when they have the vote, were stupid, or expressing a view by not voting. (much like Russel Brand)

Go figure.

All the politicians are ultimately the same people, cut from the same cloth, having debated together at Eton or where-ever. Boys club.

But you are not changing this by dividing up the education board.

Yawn.

Or when state schools and private schools are indistinguishable as per his latest edict

I think it would be a good idea to have a separate topic for private schools. It could always be put back into general when Gove has his way and all schools are of private school standard.

Exactly forago North London school anxiety

Oh I think the regulars are still here.

curlew
Oh come on...
You can't have "private school" in a thread title without a fairly rapid descent into this especially 40 secs onwards

It's not private schools in general that bother me. I live in a very mixed area and my DDs have friends at private, comprehensive and grammar school, so general chat is interesting.

It's specific London School questions, state and private I'd like a separate place for. The levels of competition and tiny catchments are just totally removed from everyday life here.

21 posts til the first mention of driving a "normal"car. P
22 posts to "snobbery
26 to "envy and bitterness"
Then somebody started talking about chips on shoulders, and after that it all went downhill a bit.

Or Xenia. It was one of my main MN revelations - that there are people out there who think that children's lives are worthless if they don't get into one of a handful of North London schools. Whatever happenned to them?

Much bonkers ness from both sides of the argument, all of which has been very educational for people on the fence, we wouldn't see all that if the boards were segregated.

I used to like to get stuck into a good old ding-dong on the school threads. But its just not the same without Seeker .

Exactly, education is disgustingly random in this country - postcode lottery for state, discriminated against if your parents are atheists for faith, only if your parents are well off enough (or are good at fiddling the bursary system) for independent. When we all agree, I am sure, it should be about the child's abilities and welfare. So why segregate it even more by burying your head in the sand and pretending all this is not going on in the UK now.

The over-representation of white, privately educated men in the UK boardrooms and governments won't be addressed if nobody knows it's going on.

Actually, that's true, saintlyjimjams. The Westminster one has offered many minutes of staring at the screen in horrified fascination for me - these threads are valuable in anthropological terms, if nothing else.

I think a private school board would be great.

why not?

I love how people are talking about boards as somehow impenetrable though! It's not as if nobody would be able to see that stuff anyway, if it became sufficiently active!

I do not agree with this suggestion whatsoever.

I like those threads. The Devon/Cornwall one has me in stitches everytime. The slagging off of Truro School, then along comes a mum from ...... Truro school. And Mount House is the only true prep school in the whole of Devon & Cornwall darling. Ds2's (state) school was proclaimed to be better than the one local public school costing many thousands a year.

Where would I go for a cheer me up laugh if they were all swinging handbags at each other in private....