I send my child to private school because....?

[jabed]

Well, I don?t actually, I just work in one. But it seems to be a constant source of questioning on MN and given the current news articles (I have been reading the DM and Tory graph online) about how many of our left wing leaders hypocritically claim to be egalitarian and socialist whilst buying education for their children , or have had education paid for by their own parents. I just wondered, what is it we expect from education, and why is it some of us are willing to pay for whatever that is and how they see that as worthy of their money.

There you go. :)

They want to think that people who send their DCs to state schools will spend all their money on beer and curries! In the same way that anyone who wants to get on in life would live in London!! If they are happy with their little prejudices it doesn't bother me!

karlos, had you ever thought about knowing what you're talking about before you shoot your mouth off?

Peerhaps rabbitstew. Perhaps you'll have to ask seeker if any of her friends dislike southern accents as well, but it doesn't appear that people with southern accents are discriminated against in the workplace...

Do you honestly believe that dealing with a insufficient school places is the same thing as trying to accommodate a child with HFA, or simialr specialised needs, metabilis?
That level of naivety is a luxury I can't afford, I'm afraid.

It depends on the southern accent!

He is indeed lucky, Karlos, and making the mistake of preaching to everyone that they should follow his lead and all will be fine, because it was for him and his kids. Life doesn't always work out like that. You don't ever learn your lesson and get it all right from then on - you avoid repeating mistakes and move on to new ones, instead.

Who has the time to set up their own school!

Interfering middle class southernors, thebestisyettocome!

Have another

ps I think someone with a southern accent might suffer a teensy bit of job discrimination if they moved up north. Fortunately for southernors, there are more jobs available down south, so they experience it less often than northerners do.

I'm from the midlands. Northerners think I'm posh and southerners think I'm from the north. It's a bloody wonder I have a job at all.

John O'Farrell has time, given he seems to have fallen out of favour somewhat; bar the massively wankerish article linked above, he has been rather scarce in the media of late, as indeed have the other idiots fond of spouting on this theme - Toby Young is in, Fiona Millar out. Could it be that lefty cant about how great the state system has been for their little darlings is going out of fashion? One can but hope.

DP's from the Midands. He doesn't sound posh to me he just sounds weird

He set up a whole new school, Karlos. That benefitted not just his kids but the kids of everyone else in his borough. He could've just bought his way out of the problem, benefitting nobody but his own kids and the people taking a salary from whatever private school he chose (Dulwich College or Alleyns). But he didn't do that. So if all you can do is show your own ignorance of the facts, then bluster (I have 3 DCs with SN) and of course, swear a lot, then I wouldn't go round criticizing someone who has made a difference in a good way.

"karlos, had you ever thought about knowing what you're talking about before you shoot your mouth off?"

Thoughtnit bore repeating. Particularly since you don't seem to have noticed that we now have q conservative government. Which may go some way to explain why John o Farrell is no longer in favour......

John O'Farell is out of favour because we have a Tory Liberal Government?

I thought it was because he's a bit of a tedious wanker...

I'm not criticising him for setting up a new school.
i'm criticising him far his smug, narrow-minded assumption that this will work for everybody else and we should all embrace the state. The state won't let me have my ds in school with the support that he needs to make a success of a mainstream placement. It won't let me. I have had to fight it tooth and nail every step of the way; three threats of the Adminsitrative Court so far this year and we're onlt just over half way through! When O'Farrell and the other bien pensant gobshites have tried dealing with my situation, they can lecture me. til then they should belt up.

Although seeker he did have a best selling novel earlier this year which was nominated For the Wodehouse award. I don't know if it was any good though, I haven't read it. He seems to be doing alright anyway. But hey, what do we know?

Yes, the Tories control the media. And little green men from mars are talking to you through your telly. we know, we know.

"I don't know if it was any good though, I haven't read it"

Hmmmm ... I reckon we can make a pretty good guess though, can't we?

I assumed you were referring to his role as a script writer and general "friend in need" to the previous Labout administration.

But feel free to shoot your mouth off in a general ignorant and ill mannered way. You're not helping your cause much, but I assume you realise that.

Have you found anywhere that would be appropriate in the private sector for your child, Karlos?

You're not interested in my cause seeker, thoug,h are you? You're interested in lecturing people about how marvellous the state system is (and how great you are for choosing it). When people like me come along and point out how comprehensively our dc are failed by it, it's much easier to rubbish us; we're pretty inconveneint, after all, if your aim is to justify the status quo and label those who reject it as snobs or similar.

The problem seems to me that many private schools don't take SN children, so it is even more difficult to find the right school than the state system.