I am not usually a competitive parenting type, I promise, but I am feeling rather smug today.
When we moved to the area we live in in 2007, we enrolled DS at the nursery attached to the nearest state school. We have also applied to the school for a reception place for September (will find out in April if we have got a place). We reasoned that a) it is a 5 min walk, which is a big plus, and b) it 'felt' right when we visited - friendly, small, nice staff, dynamic head teacher, DS liked it a lot on his trial day there.
At the time DS started nursery, several neighbours / acquaintances/parents at M&T group etc turned their nose up at our choice. Almost all of them had either gone private or had got their children in by hook or by crook in to an 'outstanding Ofsted' school nearly 2 miles away. I have had to endure months of saying the name of my son's nursery at M&T, softplay, in playgrounds etc to random parents, only for other them to either be openly snotty about it or to conceal their snobbishness behind tight smiles and a change of subject. One neighbour (who is a nice woman in many respects, but does have snobbish tendencies) said that DS's school had 'too many chain smoking, tattooed mums' for her liking - said tongue in cheek, but I was still a bit about it
Anyway...today our DS's (lovely) nursery teacher told us that the nursery and school had got an Outstanding Ofsted Report - almost all Level 1s, and easily the best report in the area (above the snotty-parents-favourite-school )
AIBU to feel bloody smug about this?
I can't wait to tell my neighbour!