Starting to Freak Out Over Lost School Application..

[A4710Rider]

Hi, sorry, but I'm freaking out a little here.

My ex partner and I co parent, she's just rang to say that the Council had never received or has lost our son's primary school application.

He's in Reception at the moment and it's a Welsh language school, he'll be distraught if he as to get somewhere else and so will me and his mum.

Does anyone know what the next steps are? My ex has a really stressful job and I know she must be in pain because of the muck up.

Any advice would be greatfully received, thank you.

It's an utterly useless language and a waste of school time. Imagine if the language they were learning was Spanish, French, Mandarin - how useful that would be for those children's lives.

I never, ever have cause to use Welsh and neither does anyone else I know who had to learn it at school. Plenty of those people still live in Wales.

It's useless and fortunately dying.

Oh give over, flap.

I take if Flat doesn't live in Wales anymore.........

I don't live in Wales anymore, but I frequentlywork in Cardiff and Wrexham. All of my family, except one sister, still live there. As do many of my old friends.

You’re being very, very weird Flat

I imagine Flat was frogmarched over the Severn Bridge and told never to come back. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Best not ask her opinion on the bridge’s new name, then....

Just because you don't have cause to use something doesn't mean it shouldn't be taught. I never mastered advanced physics but I'm pretty glad to take advantage of the work done by people who have.

I am glad you have got the school of your choice after all. May be next time send things signed for delivery to be on the safe side. As for whether small children do better in Welsh language schools or not presumably there are statistics int erms of ultimate A level grades and which universities they get into depending on which route they go down so it should be pretty easy to check.

"Just because you don't have cause to you something doesn't mean it shouldn't be taught." So, you'd be happy for your DC to learn Esperanto at school? It's probably more useful than Welsh, which is used by such a miniscule number of people, who will all speak English anyway.

It's a waste of time, resources and energy. Children could be learning a useful language like Spanish, or British Sign Language. I can't think of any language which would be less worthwhile than Welsh.

In fact, I can't think of a single subject, let alone language, which would be less worthwhile than Welsh. It's compulsory to GCSE age, including throughout primary, for many poor children!

Children would benefit more from benefit more from anything! Construction, vegetable growing, origami - anything!

Don't know what happened to my "benefit more" sentence! :-D

You’re taking this very personally. You ok hun?

Actually, flat, NOT speaking Welsh CAN put you at a disadvantage when it comes to jobs. South East Walian here who went to school before Welsh was compulsory. I’m now unable to apply for numerous jobs in the Arts, Education and National Assembly that I’d really love to do (as well as jobs with BBC Wales etc) as I’m not bilingual.

So glad this story has a happy ending. Phew! So sad to read the ignorant posts about Welsh language. Learning another language is such a wonderful thing, and so much easier when you're a child. So glad to hear Welsh is thriving!!

Welsh isn't thriving. :)

I know this isn't a debate about the pros and cons of the welsh language... BUT... I live in S E Wales and I would make it optional if possible. My eldest is dyslexic and my youngest has ASD. When these two can barely attain in English, the language of the whole of the UK, to their appropriate age level I do feel that exceptions should be made. If you can do it great, but if it's being taught at detriment to the rest of your child's education then no, I do not think it should be compulsory.

I work for a national public sector inspectorate (not Ofsted) and we actively recruit Welsh speakers at every level. Sadly, I am not one of them.

My dc grew up with 2 languages (not Welsh) and what has become apparant is that they learn other languages quite quickly. One speaks 4 languages the other 3. So IMO learning a second language at an early age can only be a good thing.
I am glad it has all worked out ok OP.

I'm so glad that all worked out and can I add it's so refreshing to hear the father being so reasonable and positive about an XW - and bonus points for not blaming her as you co parent!

Flat - what did Wales ever do for you?

To you?!!!