I think crazylady has a point.
Xenia is stating what she feels is 'best' for her children anbd trying to acheieve that.
And Motherinferior is doing the same.
They jsut both have very differing views views on what best is.
I also think that the basis of what Xenia says is true for many parents, many of us do want our children to go to schools where the behaviour is good, thay can reach their full potential, have wide rangiing opportunities and on the whole these things will add up to good results, which is one measure we can use to judge the school.
However, Xenia, the language you use to make these points and some of the justifications are so inflammatory.
'Low IQ' is utterly meaningless, unless we debate the meaning and definition of this and the validity of the tests which measure it (and I speak as someone who spends a large proprtion of my working life measuring adult's and childrens IQ's)
'an accent like mine', once you start talking about accent, you loose any credibilty in most peoples eyes as this just smacks of narrow minded bigotry and is nothing to do with what is best for your children or not.
'Dysfunctional families' is just laughable, the complexity of family life and relationships is not restricted to one class. As some one said,a single mother whose children have minimal contact with their father such as you, would be judged as 'dydfunctional' by many, who could judge that would not wish wish their children to be exposed to families where divorce is the norm. (just as bigoted, but on differnt grounds).
AS you consider yourself to have suvh a high IQ (whatever that means) I am suprised that you are unable to see that your potentially understandable premise, becomes totally invalid and insulting as it is ridden with snobbery narrow mindedness.