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

[teachersaspirations]

sorry I find it a teeny-weeny bit hard to swallow that teachers don't or can't glean more information about schools and teachers and teaching than people who are outside the profession

[SilverApples]

State schools.
I did move from a shit area in the NW to a much nicer area in the SE when my children hit school age though. DD did a year and a half in a rough and aggressive school and that was enough.
I enjoy teaching on the front line, but I see my children as NCs.

[Bramshott]

A lot of teachers send their kids to the school with the best wrap-around care as they work and inflexible long hours (I'm not a teacher).

[SilverApples]

'sorry I find it a teeny-weeny bit hard to swallow that teachers don't or can't glean more information about schools and teachers and teaching than people who are outside the profession'

Weally weally OP?
You do realise that the majority of teachers live way outside their jobs catchment areas?

[Tailtwister]

Quite a few teachers who teach in DS1's school have children there and one of the major factors for them taking the job was having fees for their child paid. I don't know if they are taxed as a benefit or not, but imagine they are (the government don't miss a trick!).

As for the best state schools...I don't imagine they would have preferential treatment for places if they teach there, or maybe I'm wrong.

[LynetteScavo]

I find in interesting that all the teachers I know, even those with high earning spouses who could afford to send their DC to independent schools, chose state schools for their DC.

A lot of teachers I know have older DC at grammar school. This is because their DC (like them) are genuinely bright.

I know one teacher who is about to move house to a smaller house to the same value of the one she lives in now, because it's in the catchment area of a secondary school she prefers.

I think at the end of the day, with state schools it's which school you prefer. I very much dislike one local school, which others are desperate for their DC to attend. DC are leaving my DCs school in droves. DH and I will not be moving our DC, because there isn't another school in this town we would prefer them to attend.

[SatinSandals]

Strange that so many go to grammar schools when there are a mere 64 left!

[LynetteScavo]

And two of them are in the town where I live

Interestingly, none of the teachers I know used tutors for the 11+, but did "give their DC a few papers".

[Tailtwister]

We don't have grammar schools in Scotland Lynette, so maybe that's why lots of teachers seem to go private.

[vj32]

Some schools (Academies who can set their own criteria) now give preference in their admissions criteria to children of staff, but I think this is still very rare. I could get DS into the secondary I work at if I wanted to.

I disagree about the insider knowledge about local schools, but I do have a better understanding of how the 'system' works and a better idea of what kind of school I want DS to go to having worked in a few school.

I have never lived in the catchment of a school I worked at.

And school catchment was the biggest factor when we moved house. How very lower middle class of us! I know some wealthy educated people who didn't give school catchments much thought until was too late to do anything about it, and then they are 'forced' to go private or send their child to a school they don't like.

[Talkinpeace]

teachers comply with the admissions code and use catchment schools like the rest of us

[lljkk]

ime, they send to local schools or same schools where they work at or same schools as that their friends go to. Bit like most people.

[QueenofLouisiana]

DS goes to another school in the own in which I teach. Actually, it is perceived to be a 'worse' school than my own- but we are very happy. I chose it because I felt it would be happy there and it had access to wrap around care. I have never felt I made the wrong choice.

At secondary level my DH's academy would give him priority entry if we wanted it. We'll see....

[ICantGoOverItICantGoUnderIt]

I will send my DD to our local primary school, which isn't the one I teach at, although I would have no problem with her attending there either.

I am concerned about the reputation of both our local secondary schools at the moment, but DD is only 10mo so we can reassess closer to the time! We will consider private for secondary if the state options are still poor at the time. We could afford this due to DH's job. The poor reputations of the local state secondary schools are common knowledge, I have no inside info!

[BeatrixIsPotty]

I teach in an independent boarding school, my DC go to my local state primary. I couldn't afford the uniform for the school I teach at, let alone the school fees even with the staff discount!

[Arisbottle]

I teach in a state comprehensive / secondary modern. With one exception all of my children have or will attend the school I teach in. One is at the grammar, only because he was on a managed move from my school. I would far rather that he attended my school.

I would not teach in a state and send my children private, despite being financially able. I am very very uncomfortable that my son is at a grammar school when I teach in a comp/ secondary modern.

[Clawdy]

Mine went to their local primary. Then they all attended our local comprehensive where their dad was a teacher. We would never have considered anything else.

[FavoriteThings]

It is like asking your doctor where he would go if he had to have a certain operation. Or asking your optomotrist.

[Arisbottle]

It is important to me that I provide a level of education that I would be happy for my own children to receive. I would feel like a hypocrite to live in catchment and then choose to send my children elsewhere

[bigTillyMint]

My DC went to the local primary and are now at the local comp.

Neither of us wanted to send them private, or put them in for the super selectives. Of my friends who are teachers, all send/have sent to local non-selective schools

[soul2000]

Aris. Why would your prefer your Ds to be at your school when it is
obvious he is much more suited to the grammar school.

Why would you not want your DCs to go to the most suitable schools
for them if possible.

I take the managed move to the grammar school, was because the work
was not challenging enough for your Ds and that he was finding the other pupils were not academically up to his level.

[Arisbottle]

He is not more suited to the grammar , although we have managed to make it work.

No, my son was academically stretched at my school, sometimes more than he is at the grammar. He was moved because of bullying that got out of control and resulted in my son retaliating in a way that meant that he was facing a permanent exclusion. My son has special needs which means that he will struggle to a certain extent in mainstream school.

[Arisbottle]

My daughter number one could also be at the grammar, she is also at my school - which suits her.

Daughter number 2 is a borderline grammar student, she has just started at my school.

Our son is too young to tell but he will also go to my school - although I may not be teaching there by the time he is ready to move up.

Child number 5 is still a fetus - so we will see!

[soul2000]

Thank you Aris. I can see you have answered that question on another
thread. For a grammar school to take a pupil with a threatened expulson
is unusal.

Is your Ds happy at the grammar school where presumably he will not
get builed for either being a bit different or being a son of a strict
teacher.