Just had my parents to visit and they were telling me about the primary school that my niece will start in in September. Apparently the school gets fantastic results (60% Level 5 in KS2 SATs) and is great preparation for secondary education (over 50% get into selective schools at 11). They then went on to wax lyrical about how pleased and relieved hey were that niece hadn't ended up with her catchment school as it wasn't nearly as good - the intake was a bit "mixed" and the results were poor. I did make a mild comment about that sounding more like it was a school of high achievers rather than the school necessarily, and got a response about how that might be so, but it was a much better environment for their niece.
Since they've gone I have stupidly looked up both schools - the school my parents were slagging off, looks remarkably similar (on paper anyway, which is as much as my parents have seen of it) to the school my DC go to. My parents are education snobs, and were horrified that the DC hadn't gone to private school, but I hadn't realised they were quite so appalled by their current school.
So, I know they are too old to change, and I just have to put up with them, but am I allowed to be annoyed by their blinkered attitude?