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this must be the parpiest of parpiest article

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:27

int h paper its acconmpanies byt two girls in boaters ffs

THIS is why i want to kill most peopel hwo go to private shcools

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:28

"One night she went to bed sobbing, “Mummy, they don’t even do mental maths.”

Angry
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cod · 25/04/2006 12:30

readit

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beckybrastraps · 25/04/2006 12:30

"I was one of the only mothers in my daughter’s class who had a full-time job. Consequently, they were the only children in the school being picked up by an au pair."

"It seemed to me that the private school we had just moved them from actually offered a wider social diversity than the state school."

Huh?!!

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:30

readit

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fastasleep · 25/04/2006 12:31

But within six weeks I’d found a solution: I’d stop working in London, give up the au pair, and work from home; that meant a saving of £700 monthly, ie, the cost of one child’s school fees for a month. If we then rented out the au pair’s bedroom and let the cleaner go, that would just about cover both. Holidays, meals out and extracurricular activities for the children would also have to stop.

PMSL

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:31

nob no nob wanker

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:31

hahaha no spanish for florence then
she cna watch dora liek th rest of us

this is a torygraph artice surely

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frogs · 25/04/2006 12:32

Read this online this am, so I was spared the boaters. Still spoilt my post school-run cup of coffee, though.

What, FFS, had they said to the poor child to make her wet the bed before she'd even started the new school? Clearly something along the lines of, 'Oh darling, I'm sorry we're going to have to take you away from your lovely school and throw you to the lions. You're bound to get beaten up every day, but I'm sure you'll get used to it".

FGS!!!

fastasleep · 25/04/2006 12:32

Hahaahahaha

fgs

this is like the 'oh my god I'm in debt, should I sell one of my 7 houses' thing....

marthamoo · 25/04/2006 12:32

That line made me pmsl, cod. What kind of weirdy child sobs about not doing "mental maths" at school Grin?

The writer just sounds terribly drippy and indecisive to me - take 'em out, put 'em back in. Why couldn't she and her husband have made the lifestyle changes necessary in the first place - and not made the child suffer the dreadful hardship of going to an ordinary school (not even a bad school...)?

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:33

i am sorry but his has made me more cross thant he toikey thing

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alexsmum · 25/04/2006 12:33

ffs!!!!!
they managed by getting rid of the aupair and the cleaner!!!
poor little florence!
and poor mummy having to clean her own kitchen floor!

parp indeed!

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:33

Now, I’m ready to get up at 5am and wash the kitchen floor before work because what we’re trying to afford is a luxury and privilege. And I now know, without a doubt, it’s worth it.

let her scrub

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:34

is thsi the biggest pile of shite oyu have ever read in youtr life

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beckybrastraps · 25/04/2006 12:34

No - that Rosie Millard ISN'T selling her flat, because she'only make £80,000 after tax, so it's really not worht it!

robinpud · 25/04/2006 12:34

fgs.. do you really belive she has taken a lodger? Why do they wear straw boaters.. is it to stop the knowledge fallng out of their heads? It's nice to know that the private school had equiped her to be an active and independent learner.. not. It's so nice to read an article that describes the whole picture and not just a distorted view....parp

marthamoo · 25/04/2006 12:35

Some kids don't know they're born, do they? Too "squashy" in a class of 30. Ds1 is in a class of 34 in a classroom which would comfortably accommodate no more than 20. His teacher said she's so proud of the way they have learned to work around each other and have consideration for each other in what is, admittedly, a far from ideal setting.

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:36

i cant find a photo of poor old scrubber shona BUT i do feel that to conform to most mn threads that this thread must now degenerate into slagging off ehr looks

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SparklyGothKat · 25/04/2006 12:36

What a twat... pmsl!!

beckybrastraps · 25/04/2006 12:36

I still don't get the bit about parents and not au pairs picking up the children.

marthamoo · 25/04/2006 12:37

No-one needs to get up at 5am to wash the kitchen floor, that's just silly.

foundintranslation · 25/04/2006 12:37

The mental maths bit made me think it was a pisstake.

frogs · 25/04/2006 12:37

Parpity parp.

Shucks, you pay all that money and your child never learns the most important lesson of all -- how not to be a precious princessy little drama queen.

charliecat · 25/04/2006 12:37

No mention of the school that she herself went to. I bet she went to the local comprehensive and married an ugly fat rich man.

alexsmum · 25/04/2006 12:38

this kind of thing really pisses me off.people who CHOOSE to take on an enormous mortgage ,buy a 4x4 and send the kids to private school and then moan about how poor they are.
There was an article in the ..? it was either the independent or the observer about how the government was helping families(or not)and there was this woman moaning about how their income was only £100,000 a year and how the government didn't do anything to help people like them!
so f annoying!