where do teachers send their kids

[teachersaspirations]

changed my name for this for one as it is potentially a bit hot!

I am beginning to notice that a lot of the teachers who teach our kids, their kids go to the best/better schools
the grammars/the select schools etc...

it would be interesting to know what proportion of parents are teachers for these grammar schools/select schools etc...

PS am not a teacher

Teachers daughter not treachers..blaming mil wine she left me.

Oh and as teachers, we know that reading the OFSTED reports don't mean a thing when rating a school.

My children go to the school closest to our house. I teach in a school 45 mins drive away.

I wouldn't have a problem with them attending the school I work in, if it was closer to home. I do actually think it's a better school.

Midnite I didn't mean it that way but the op is implying that teachers are getting their children into selective schools because they are teachers I'm just making a point that any child bright enough can. I'm one of the lone parents and also fall into another bracket so does the other lone parent. Sorry if you took offence none was intended.

I know teachers in private schools who get a substantial discount on fees if they send the child to their school.

Also a teacher will have a better idea than most of the hoops to jump through for different schools - whether this is how to get them up to speed in Maths (although they may not be experts they may know someone who is) or the number of years they need to attend a certain church for. They are just doing what they believe is best for their child like many other parents, they just are better informed.

In my UK experience, it was definitely true that teachers had the inside info. I taught in London and you always knew someone who knew about a school.

I knew no-one, teacher or not, who sent their DCs to private schools, but they did use their buying power to move house into the right area for a state school.

I'll bow out against the obvious tide of disagreement

My DD goes to the local primary. My DS goes to our catchment comprehensive. We could have applied for him to go to an outstanding school near by, but we didn't. We could afford for him to go to one of several reasonably close independent schools, selective or non selective (other than by ability to pay of course), but it's not something we would choose.

I was brought up in a town with 4 single sex grammar schools. My mum doesn't agree with selective education, and I didn't take the 11+, although I was likely to have passed if I had.

It runs deep in my family!

DS1 has just started at the school (secondary) I work in. I don't teach him and, in fact, rarely see him as it's such a big place. Many of my colleagues have/ have had their children at the school.

No offence taken Jacks. As a single parent by choice teaching in a catholic school, I've got pretty thick skin.

Oh, and it's one of three local high schools.

Eh??????
School administrations are controlled by the LEA so teachers CANNOT rig the system and get their children into schools that are seen to be leafy and better.
What you may be seeing is that teachers are able to grt their children into schools that are their local catchment area or are making choices for schools outside their area and are able to get in via the distance rule/sibling rule.
I really think you are making very unfair presumptions.
I am a teacher and my child lives in a village with an 'Outstanding' school - in fact, the nearest two after our village are also rated 'Outstanding'. The school that I teach at is a 'Requiring Improvements' school. Are you going to accuse me of geting my child into better schools than the parents of children who I teach?
You will find that most people's children go to their catchement area school unless they are lucky to live in an area with 'more choice'.

Jacks365 it is possible to be a solicitor and a lone parent . In fact considering the hours we work it is extremely common to be both.

I don't think that teachers are an homogeneous group though. The decisions that some of my colleagues have made for their children are different from the decisions I have made for my children. My priority is for my children to attend a local school, I want that school to have a decent catchment area, I would be very reluctant to move them during a school stage. I went to 'good' state schools with decent results, but I feel that I personally wasn't pushed and underachieved, I moved during a school year and I found it very difficult. So for me stability in school is a top priority and that is because of my personal experience of schooling. As a teacher I will be well placed to understand progress tracking and also well placed to organised extra tuition if I feel either of mine are under-achieving.

I'm finding primary interesting though. My dd is 5 and I feel that the academic drive of her school is a bit overkill. I'm struggling to fit in the reading and spelling practice they expect. I'm pretty laid back with demanding she works at home, I feel 5 is very young for formal schooling.

Quite a few staff at my last school lived in the catchment area which was very mixed. They all made it clear that they wouldn't expose their children to it. Even the Chair of Geverners sent his kids to out "leafy lane" rival.

No children here but my teacher friends' children go to the local schools. Don't know any in private or selective schools. In current school I teach colleagues' children, have done every year so far. As a school we must be doing something right then!

kim had to laugh. I've been a know-nothing English teacher for years, and only come handy recently now the exams are looming.:o

I meant I know other teachers who would be able to privately tutor my children - obviously as their parent I know nothing!

Kim147

"Teachers are well informed to how schools operate and can cut through the bullshit of parent's evening / targets. In theory, they are better placed to deal with hassles and bureaucracy as they know the system.
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I agree with this

but it is the teachers who are delivering these 'parent's evening / targets' to parents

"I say in theory. It does not always happen but they won't be fobbed off with low expectations."

are we fools for believing these expectations

I'm a teacher, a lone parent and have a child at a private school (not mine). Rare breed indeed! Info I have about schools is the same as everyone else.