to be going a bit mental re. secondary school choice

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when i swore i never would.

i liked nice catholic comprehensive (mixed), seemed like good teachers but rather snotty admissions staff/governors IMO.

my son preferred an "enterprise" academy, whatever that is, which reminded me closely of a basic 70s prefab secondary!

we argued about it and now i hate all secondary schools, ofsted reports and allowing my son to have an opinion in the first place.

AIBU?

YANBU.
If I read one more buggering Ofsted report I shall eat my own head.

Dd has taken to judging them on uniform and I am now judging on the standards of coffee.

If you have a child in Y6, this time of year can get a bit intense.

Not sure about the choice of words in the thread title, but perhaps it jumped out at me because of today's news story about the way supermarket websites described certain fancy dress costumes.

I'm so glad Trueyou've started this thread...I'm soooo confused about the secondary schools here, have to choose from 20 makes me scream...
My DS has different idea altogether, he found a military school in Dover (I will have to win EuroMillions first, annual fee is 10K +

Ofsted reports... pah, my DH got full GCSE results for all subjects from the schools we were interested in and did statistics on them.

yeah, YANBU.

Ofsted Dashboard data here is sometimes easier in terms of seeing quick snapshot comparisons - the Progress tab is useful.

But instinct is possibly worth more than data - which school did you like the look/feel of more? What did your gut tell you?