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To think that the person who wrote this is quite simply a twat?

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Mouseyinmyhousey · 22/04/2013 21:27

From FB.

Over the Easter holidays the roads were traffic free. Proving that rush hour I'd caused by parents taking their kids to school. It should be law that all parents should be made to walk to school whatever the weather, getting rid of rush hour, and obesity. Also if people want a better school they'll have to walk further, or better still, make everyone attend they're local school thus making a fairer society.

Complete nob, right?

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coppertop · 22/04/2013 23:17

"Over the Easter holidays the roads were traffic free."

Presumably the writer forgot the old saying that "You're not in traffic. You are traffic."

TheSecondComing · 22/04/2013 23:22

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AvrilPoisson · 22/04/2013 23:24

TSC- in many villages, the only school is CE or RC, really... some people would have to travel miles to find a non-faith primary.

CabbageLeaves · 22/04/2013 23:29

It should be law that all employees should be made to walk to work whatever the weather, getting rid of rush hour, and obesity. Also if people want a better job they'll have to walk further, or better still, make everyone attend they're local employment place thus making a fairer society

There you go. I've sorted rush hour

NorthernLurker · 22/04/2013 23:30

My daughters walk or cycle to school nearly every day ( very occasional lift in car if torrential rain or I need it for work later on). Doesn't mean I've sent them to the closest or catchment school.

People always say 'if everybody went to the nearest school it would even out standards etc' It wouldn't at all. Just make the housing market even more daft as people strove to buy houses next door to people just like them.

TheSecondComing · 22/04/2013 23:32

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NorthernLurker · 22/04/2013 23:44

In London some areas yes but not everywhere. There's generally enough flexibility in the system to keep some mix there.

InSync · 23/04/2013 00:10

Driving allows me to work 9.15am-3pm and do the school school both ways.

I feel that my caring responsibilities gives me more right to drive that an individual who can make their way to and from work at their leisure as they have nothing to rush back for.

Glittertwins · 23/04/2013 06:34

I would walk them all the time if I didn't work and need the after school club. School is just under a mile away but after school club is at a different school which I can't get to in time after finishing work.

LtEveDallas · 23/04/2013 07:08

I'd love to be able to walk DD to school (actually that's a lie as I avoid the school mums at all cost) but even though there is a school no more than 300 yards from my house, DD was placed in one 2.5 miles away.

It's only 2.5 miles, so she doesnt qualify for the school bus, and we could easily walk the distance - but unfortunately it's 2.5 miles of busy 60 mph A road with no pavements.

Thanks to the traffic it takes DH 20 mins to get her to school. It's ridiculous really.

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Mouseyinmyhousey · 23/04/2013 07:16

I can tell that the people here saying that, everyone sending their child to the local school would improve standards, probably don't live on really rough council estates.

It's largely the local kids, well their parents, that make the school so bad. So forcing everyone to attend their local school wouldn't work.

The other problem is, you often find that really good teachers don't want to work in schools in rougher areas. The only way to change things would be to completely overhaul the whole system and to mix up areas .

Often people aren't travelling to get to an amazing school, just to get to an ok school. And I don't believe that a handful of kids are going to change a school that's failed 3 ofsted in a row, changed heads, teachers, and nothings worked.

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MissAnnersley · 23/04/2013 07:17

DS walks to school. It's the local school.

I work full time and manage.

There are children in DS's school who are driven a very short distance when they could easily walk.

I agree with the OP.

MissAnnersley · 23/04/2013 07:20

Yikes. I agree with the statement in the OP.

DS's school is in an area of high deprivation. We live right on the very edge of it. That's the way it goes though.

He has had good and bad teachers, met some great children and some he likes to avoid. I would presume that would be the case if he went to a school in a 'good' area too.

everlong · 23/04/2013 07:21

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Mouseyinmyhousey · 23/04/2013 07:29

Everlong, obviously I can't speak for every school, and every area. But certainly round here it is the case.

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Mouseyinmyhousey · 23/04/2013 07:32

I actually can't think of a school in a 'posh' hate that word, area, that hasn't got outstanding ofsted, excellent attainment.

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MoaneyMcmoanmoan · 23/04/2013 07:33

CabbageLeaves Grin has the perfect response.

Freddiemisagreatshag · 23/04/2013 07:34

TSC due to my divorce. My kids go to a primary school 8 miles away.

I took the sections not to move them as they were settled and happy and had enough to contend with at the time.

Am I wrong? (Genuine question - it never occurred to me to move their school)

Freddiemisagreatshag · 23/04/2013 07:34

Decision. Fone. Fat fingers. No glasses. No coffee.

usualsuspect · 23/04/2013 07:37

I live on a council estate my children went to the local school.nice to know that parents want to avoid me and my children. Thanks for that.

Freddiemisagreatshag · 23/04/2013 07:41

Usual - my kids went to the school that was closest to me when I was married. I kept it like that.

I went to school in the school attached to the roughest council estate in the town where I grew up. I still have friends I went to school with. My mum taught there and she knew the kids were fine just ordinary kids and the quality of the teaching was excellent (which it was). I never felt I missed out on my primary education.

everlong · 23/04/2013 07:42

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Mouseyinmyhousey · 23/04/2013 07:44

usual, I live on a council estate too, that's how I know how awful the two local schools are.

If you didn't know that people often pull faces and prefer to avoid certain areas and schools, where have you been?

Also, there are council estates, where the area is ok and you have a mixture of people. And then you have extremely deprived areas and unfortunately schools in the centre of these areas tend to not do so well.

Round here anyway, perhaps I live in a strange place.

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Freddiemisagreatshag · 23/04/2013 07:44

Te the just ordinary kids was to counter this notion that prevails often on here and pisses me right off that the kids from a council estate are s

Freddiemisagreatshag · 23/04/2013 07:45

Ok fed too soon. Stupid phone

Someone untouchables or different or nasty horrible brats purely by virtue of the fact they love in a council house.
They aren't. They're just kids.