to be amused that the more exclusive a school is..

[seeker]

.. by faith, fees, ability, aptitude..whatever- the more diverse a community the school's parents say it is.

Why did you opt out of the comp system seeker when it all is clearly so important to you? Genuine question.

I haven't opted out of the comprehensive system. I live in a county where there are no comprehensive schools.

I thought you were in Kent, seeker. there are comps in Kent. There are also secondary moderns, but we couldn't have little seeker in one of those, I expect.
You have been harping on this theme for some time. It's all becoming a ad obsessive, isn't it?

Sorry. In the bit of Kent where I live there are no comprehensive schools.

and the sec mods? What's wrong with them?
I think we know the answer to that, don't we readers?

I do not know seeker but I DO KNOW that chunks of Kent are fully "Grammar" / "Secondary Modern"
It is one of the three counties (with Lincolnshire and Buckinghamshire) which operate a county wide selective education system
there ARE NO true comps in Kent.

Although a lot of independent schools are often populated with students with parents from high incomes as the fees stratifiy their intake. From what I've seen and heard they don't appear to have any of the divisions along the lines of race or religion which comprehensives appear to.

I seem to recall that seeker even went to the lengths of an appeal to get her little darling away from the frightful thickies in the secondary modern.
Apologies if that wasn't you and I'm defaming you, seeker.

ReactionaryFish
Would you be happy with your child attending a school that did not teach any GCSE science and foreign languages and got no children into a pre 1990 university
and therefore had the caliblre of teaching to go with it.
I'm not a hypocrite.
I wouldn't.

Oh, talkinpeace got there first.

Seeker you are right and as regards what school your children go to, only the really hard of understanding are still failing to understand.

Is that why you chose your little darlings Private school? ReactionaryFish

To keep yours away from the plebs?

I wouldn't, Talkinpeace, but I don't go round berating other parents for the choices they make within the constraints of their circumstances, either.
Therein lies the hypocrisy.

I've pm'd you, usual, to explain why you are well wide of the mark with that.

I know this is late in the thread but since when did 'diverse' = 'dangerous'

That is pretty insulting

Could someone explain to me what is wrong with Secondary schools? Or should I know?

Not prepared to tell us all, reactionary fish?

The reason I chose private school, seeker, is my ds has ASD, and I could not secure proper provision for him in the state sector.
Feel good about yourself now?

Reactionary my HUGE problem with the grammar system is the fact that

• middle class parents spend a years worth of school fees coaching their kids to pass the test
• any child who is under the weather that day will have their educational chances scuppered for ever.

and like 90% of the population, school fees that have increased at more than double the rate of inflation for 20 years are not even an option if I sold a kidney.

If you can't take it, don't dish it out.

Well reactionary I think you've been nasty enough to feel you kept your end up here, so I wouldn't worry! Would also comment that there are quite a fair few kids with ASD in the state sector.

I cannot work out why a child with Atrial Septal Disorder could not go to a state school?
after all the ones with poor parents must do
or am I being obtuse?

Trust me seeker, I'm not remotely bothered by any judgement you might make. particularly since you can't muster the grace to make an apology.
I am, however, amused at how bigots make fools of themselves. and how badly they react when caught out.

There are indeed many children with ASD in the state sector. pop over to the SN board sometime, find out how well they are served there.
it might just make you reconsider your views.

What apology? Sorry your child has ASD? That would not be very good, would it? Sorry you had to go private as your child has ASD?

I know a fair few of them, reactionary.