My eldest is currently in year 4 and we need to start thinking about secondary schools, but I’m really conflicted about what to do. There are 2 schools that are possibilities. Moving house and going private are not options.
School one - this is the school I always though the kids would go to. It’s a very big comprehensive. But it has been very poor for a number of years (ofsted 4). It has recently had an academy take over. I always thought it would get better, but it just isn’t, or not very quickly anyway. They’ve had a few heads try to turn it around, but all have left after only a couple of years.
School two - I work at this school in a fairly senior position, and have been here for 16 years. But it is a Catholic school, I’m not catholic and the children haven’t been baptised at all. This school is very much aiming for outstanding in the ofsted and has every chance of getting it. It is our closest school (walking distance) but you have to be baptised Catholic to get in. No chance otherwise. If we got the children baptised Catholic they would definitely have a place.
Here's the dilemma though. I feel it is morally wrong to have the children baptised to get into the school, but it is so, so much better than the other option. However, I know that lots of parents do this and the vast majority who are from Catholic families are really not religious at all. The vast majority do not attend mass. I understand what a Catholic education looks like pretty well having worked here for so long and I love the ethos of the school (otherwise I’d have moved long ago) but we are not Catholic.
There is only the choice of these two schools. What would you do?
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Which secondary school would you pick?
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Tallulasdancingshoes · 27/05/2022 19:38
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