this must be the parpiest of parpiest article

[cod]

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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She's very self obssessed isn't she. The kitchen floor bit had me rolling on the floor with laughter.

But otherwise I agree with Bloss (especially about the NHS :o)

agree renhs
t he firts party that admits we cant do it any mroe gets my vote

we are never ill thank GOD but htose hospitals are crap

But that's the whole point bloss.
It was the change her child didn't like, probably any change. Yet she is laying the blame on the state education system. Even though they hadn't experienced it yet. And then she thinks it is ok to write about it!! Can't she see the flaws in her argument?

Issyfit, I still have my dog-eaten boater, it is as manky as hell - could send it on to you!

Oh that poor woman. Why on earth are we being so unsympathetic? Imagine having to clean your own kitchen floor . Or that delicate flower seeing her classmates picked up by their mummies. The emotional torment... those six weeks probably scarred the little cherub for life. Hope her mummy never takes her anywhere where she might be exposed to common children again. It could do lasting social damage.

er htis s article isnOT to be taken seriosuly

it is to be slagged

quanglewangle - I don't think it was just change the child didn't like. Surely you don't have to be a private education snob to recognise that a change to a class three times the size is a change for the worse?

Btw, the comment that 'if a school is private, its run for the profit, and that doenst = the best in all things for your child indivdually' is WILDLY inaccurate. The number of private schools run for profit is minuscule - most are private but not-for-profit.

Caligula - I do take your point. She is very self-obsessed, and while I support her reaction in taking strong measures to get her own dd in a place that's better for her, it would be nice to hear at least some sort of acknowledgement that it shouldn't be that way...

aht the shcools are there out of th kindness of their hearts!

Don't you recognise real suffering when you see it, Cod? I certainly hope you give privately educated people an easier ride when you are in court. Otherwise they might have to rub shoulders with the great unwashed.

I think we should start a collection for the poor woman to help keep her delicate little flowers in their school.

well a CHair of a bench i was on tried to let me take into a ccount when assessing a fine that this bloke had 15k of shcool fees annually
i maintiend this was a lifesyle choice nad refused to mitigate for it
am in minority

Or maybe a support group? We could make some lovely banners out of tablecloths... White Company or John Lewis's only, obviously. And get our au pairs to embroider them.

ks coudl jelp with table cloths

No! Seriously? Oh my Lord...

yep told her he shoudl send his kids to "free shcool"
( got that phrase form mn)
they see me as an iconoclast

That was my thought exactly. Maybe Jonny Boden would care to sponsor us?

LOL at the thought fo Cod as an iconoclast!

Oh dear God, I really ought to volunteer for the bench.

Bloody hell. So the courts are happy to openly discriminate on grounds of class? It's not just an unconscious 'he speaks with a proper accent so we find him more believable' thing?

Although when two people I know were up before the magistrates for housing benefit fraud (which was an honest but very stupid mistake caused by complicated forms), the tenant, who had a Northern accent, got fined. The landlord, who has a posh accent, got off.

True bloss, but the child was in a state (pardon the pun) before she even set foot through the school gates.
And it is unlikely she said "I want to stay at my small private junior school with just nine other girls in the class." Who knows what info she had or how well it was used to prepare her.

And there are private schools that have class sizes of nearly 30 as they are so popular (which must really have pissed the parents off ). So the title of the article "The move to a state school was too much to bear" is just plain prejudiced and feeds other peoples prejudices, on both sides of the state v private debate.
I don't have any argument with what she did, she is the best judge of what is right for her child. What I do object to is her peddling her ill-informed prejudeices.

i di downder too ks

Yes if I was facing that I'd promote it positively to DC: "you're going into a class of 30 people - so many more people to get to know and play with, how great, how much better than only 9 of you". Nobbia Nobsley obviously didn't think of doing that.

lady nobsley of nobland

intersting cod - were you allowed to know how much displosable income they had after the school fees? ie did you know how much they earned? I can just see a bit of merit in an argument that the child should not be impacted upon because of their parent's trangression (inasmuch as he or she would, for which see article below blah blah...) but are you really dishing out fines big enough and to people stupid enough that they would feel forced to can the school fees to pay for them (and not the au pair and the cleaner...). Also are you allowed to take into account that someone is rolling in it and make their fine suitably big? I have always thought things like parking fines are deeply unfair.