To ask - If your school was torn to shreds on MN …

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How would you respond ?

1. Make yourself a brew
2. Make something stronger
3. Be glad that you came away from it with 3 CSEs

a bit lightheaded perhaps, but my recent experience

Would not bother me. Schools change! When I went to my high school it was the beta in the town, people moved to get into it. A few years after the head teacher retired, the school went downhill and for several years it was considered bad. It had a terrible Ofsted inspection.

Now ten years on people are fighting to get their kids in again. These things often go on cycles

I couldn't give two shits about the school I went to.

The school my kids go to - it's in a shitty area and suffered a lot through Covid, but my boys have always liked it and the teachers (from what I can see) work hard and are genuinely supportive so I would defend them.

Why would you care after so many years?
It's not the same school as it was then. It has the same name and that's it. The buildings might be the same but not necessarily and any original buildings will have been adapted.
None of the staff will be the same after that length of time.

My school merged with another one and definitely doesn't have the same reputation as it did 30 years ago.
Similarly a school that was shit 30 years ago could be fantastic now.

My school wasn't good. The murder was just one of the reasons why. I'd agree if it was ripped to shreds.

I went to a very backwaters Welsh school that at the time didn’t recognise a child who was both evidently undiagnosed ND and who had a pretty shit home life. Had several teachers scream in my face, another child was physically hurt by a teacher and never fired for it (despite ending up being a police/public matter) - this was early ‘00.

Id bloody hope they’ve changed by now, but knowing the area I’d not hold my breath. I’d never send my (diagnosed ND) children to school in that area.