this must be the parpiest of parpiest article

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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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It's when I became hooked!

At risk of being flamed here, go ahead....

DD was at a private school last year, due to financial reasons we withdrew her in November and sent her a 'good' local state, my happy, bouncy child withdrew into herself, cried herself to sleep most night and was losing weight. She would wake up screaming in the night, shouting out and was also sleepwalking.

She was in a class of just under 40 children, had been put back on a reading scheme ffs she reads Harry Potter at home, was told to go back to printing her writing (the Year 2 children couldn't read her writing) It was a mixed year of 2, 3 and 4. I have never been so horrified in the change in a child in a such a short period of time.

After some financial juggling DD went back to the school in February, she's back to her happy self.

We don't have aupairs and I do work. Yes it's a struggle and no DS won't go there (it was never the plan for him to go there). My heart sank when I read that article although I can no way see myself as that mother! I really feel for her child though.

Going shoot me down now...

"As I coaxed Florence into the car along with her younger sister, Annie, who was starting school for the first time and therefore in the happy position of having nothing to compare it with, I tried to pretend that this was what we wanted for them both all along..."

But what about innocent little Annie? Has she been left to rot in the state school? Who will be picking her up at the school gates? Not her mother, i assume, unless she wants to get her head kicked in by enraged Times-reading social inferiors...

Well apart from Bloss I am going against the tide of opinion I guess.

This situation is my worst nightmare and it is one that has come very close to happening, I thought I would have to tell my daughter she would not be able to start at a private school in Septemebr with the rest of her friends at the nursery.

She would cope with that at 4 I guess but a slightly older child who had made friends, was used to the system would be very apprehensive and the difference in class size would be very hard to get used to. My dd's school class size will be 20 which I still think is a little on the high side, I would prefer 15.

Anyway I have sympathy with the family and personally would do anything including sell my house to keep my children at a private school.

We are not posh or rich, in fact we probably earn considerably less between us than a lot of people on here.

Anyway as I read on a noticeboard at a caravan site last week "only dead fish go with the flow" so I will go against the tide.

Hear Hear Julienetmum

Just came accross this. SIL is in same boat but rather than endure what this woman did SIL is taking money from Parents who CANNOT afford it. SIL must be even more afraid than this woman

When we had school fair I wanted to invite her just to see if her discomfort was noticable when on state school property.

I went to a private school, the class size was 25.

I am the child of parents who crippled the family financially purely for private school education. suffice to say that my children are at classless state schools, not in the UK.

I went to a private school, the class size was 25.

I am the child of parents who crippled the family financially purely for private school education. suffice to say that my children are at classless state schools, not in the UK.

she's not very bright really, is she?

She's just re-hashed the article for the Daily Mail. Still poor apparently.

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1332846/Take-girls-private-school-Id-starve.html here]

So it would seem that the only way she can afford to send her girls to private school is to write articles about how she can't afford to send them to private school.

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ooh look what the common people get up to in their spare time:
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