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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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JoolsToo · 25/04/2006 22:18

\link{http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2086/bathat9yb.jpg\boaters} are deffo in!

Moomin · 25/04/2006 22:21

pmsl

handlemecarefully · 25/04/2006 22:29

lmao!

Janh · 25/04/2006 22:30

JT, you have a gift with that bat - you are wasted on MN! Grin

geekgrrl · 25/04/2006 22:33

snort

Am sitting here sniggering. My heart just bleeds!! Should we send donations?

willow2 · 25/04/2006 22:37

Would just like to add that I'll write crap for even less than MI will - so feel free to CAT me anytime you require drivel.

marthamoo · 25/04/2006 22:38

Scummy! Hoorah! I told you - just one post and you would be sucked back in. Like a moth to a flame. I can go to bed happy now Grin

Clary · 26/04/2006 00:23

cod, thanks (belatedly) for posting the article.
Very annoying I agree. Cannot understand (actually) washing the floor at 5am. I clean when I'm home from work, find 8pm pref to 5am.
"wider social diversity" at private school - eh? That seems very unlikely, frankly.
I also cannot understand the au pair thing. So, it's a privilege to be picked up by the au pair? Those poor little state school kids fetched home by their mums? Eh???? (not that I have a problem with children being picked up by childminders). Why does it matter that they are one of only a few families where both parents work? She is such a snob!!
(Florence is a nice name tho. It would have been DS2's (only we felt it was a bit, errm, girly Smile)
MI, lol at being widely available to write drivel at rock-bottom rates!

Clary · 26/04/2006 00:24

should add that I too am excellent at writing drivel by the yard if anyone wants to offer me hard cash.
(my typing is better in RL)

all4girlz · 26/04/2006 00:57

well what a crock of sh*te
is it for real pmsl at some of the posts
thx cod

bloss · 26/04/2006 04:35

Agree that the article had little to say, but can you take it easy on those of us who get up at 5am to do housework? I'd love to do it at 8pm, but that's when I'm busy cleaning up after dinner/studying for my degree/doing work for my home business (I work full-time during the day). If I don't do housework at 5am, I don't necessarily have any other opportunity to do it.Can't understand why that particular thing made your blood boil!!

Also, lay off Florence for her mental maths would you? I teach some delightful geeky children who adooooooore stuff like that. (I was one of those too - used to get my mother to set me pages of arithemtic problems when I was little, just for fun.) The poor child really could have been missing it!! Let geeky children be geeks, I say! :o

quanglewangle · 26/04/2006 08:49

Since when did any self-sespecting geek get up to do housework at 5am? Don't we live in a sea of dust and coffee cups? You are a disgrace to geekness girl!!

Good grief, just seen the time of your post - do you go to bed at all or stay up all night cleaning the house?

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 26/04/2006 08:57

yes bloss - were you writing last thing at night before going to bed (for 10 minutes) or first thing in the morning before cleaning the kitchen floor? My house only gets 3 hours cleaning a week. fortunately by someone else. If I had to do it myself I'd definitely find 3 hours other than 5-8 am. I'd rather get up at 6.30 every day than 5 ever.

ScummyMummy · 26/04/2006 09:02

Loving mental maths is fine. But weeping hysterically about it and wetting the bed because your parents have irrationally poisoned your mind against the school they've chosen for you is actually very sad in both senses of the word, imo.

Bozza · 26/04/2006 09:16

bloss is in Oz, girls - that's the time thing.

Anyway I've worked out that this thread is another wind up. Cod set it up and quoted various random bits in order to wind people up and get Scummy to post. And it worked! Grin

Original poster
cod · 26/04/2006 09:23

bloss we love mental maths but its a n total nonsese that they dont teahc that in state shcools
absolute horse shit

and thatBAT wow

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Caligula · 26/04/2006 09:38

The bat is a bit of a Jools triumph

Harpsichordcarrier · 26/04/2006 09:42

by all means get up at 5am to wash your kitchen floor. but - please don't expect everyone to be impressed by your enormous sacrifice it doing so because you have "let your cleaner go", and your au pair.

geekgrrl · 26/04/2006 09:45

I thought the whole situation had arisen because her husband had got the sack (maybe for being an insufferable whinger like his wife?!Grin) ? Why can't he mop the floor and pick the children up from school whilst she works?
This really paints private school parents in a dreadful light. Grin Living up to the stereotype rather nicely.

quanglewangle · 26/04/2006 09:57

Spot on geekgrrl

bloss · 26/04/2006 10:17

Good grief! Isn't it possible that she wet the bed because she was fearful of a new school and anxious about missing her friends - even if her parents painted it in a very positive light?!!

Sometimes I just don't get British conversations - you are all sooooooo class-conscious and so eager to belt the cr*p out of each other for it.

Agree some of the tone of the article was whingey and I don't think downsizing from a huge house/cleaner etc etc is a hardship to be commiserated over. But not everything she said was entirely without merit. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a child used to 9 in a class felt pretty miserable and lost and sold short when put into a class over three times the size... Sort of reminds me of an gynaecologist I saw not long ago - he recently worked in the NHS before returning to Australia and we were chatting and he said that the only reason the British put up with the standards of the NHS is because they had no idea what a first-world country's hospital looked like now. You may not miss what you've never had, but having tasted it, it could be pretty hard - and you don't have to be a brat 'needing a slap' (to quote someone below) to have that reaction.

Caligula · 26/04/2006 10:19

True bloss. But what I found quite revolting about the article, is the "me me me" aspect of it. At no point at all, did the writer give any indication that she thinks the education system as a whole is unsuitable for anybody else's child, just for hers.

I appreciate that we can't know what she thinks by omission, but the omission of mention of other people's kids, screams volumes for me.

Orlando · 26/04/2006 10:28

And also the assumption that conditions in a decent state school were so absolutely intolerable for her children that she uprooted them again. Whatever happened to teaching them to deal with 'adversity'? (such as it is...)

Issyfit · 26/04/2006 10:30

Boaters. Ughh! DD1's school uniform includes a boater. I kind of hoped we could avoid it by sending her to school in her stiflingly hot winter uniform all year, but the school rules specify a mandatory date for boater wearing. And my plan to be subversive by giving her the mankiest old boater we could find was thwarted when I couldn't find a single bloody boater available in the school second-hand uniform shop. So, when DD1 insisted on wearing her summer uniform yesterday, I had no choice but to concede gracefully and wave her off in her brand-new, shiney boater with perky red cros-grain ribbon and ennamel school badge.

She did look cute, although I agree that en masse the kids look like twonks. I definitely felt a little part of me die. I think it may have been that part that joined the Militant Tendency in 1981. BlushBlush

Still mustn't tarry, must get back to washing that kitchen floor......

williamsmummy · 26/04/2006 10:36

I read this article , and felt that for an educated mother, she seemed a bit dim!

It does take a long time for an older child to adjust to a new school, 6 weeks was not long enough. I was also concerned that the parents didnt mention much about working with the state school staff to support there childs adjustment in to her new environment.
I also hate the idea that all private schools have brillent teachers, this is nonsense. I have worked in a private school and believe me an old fashioned school uniform doenst mean a good education for your child!

Also the family home life was going through a big upheaval, the parental stress must have been running very high. Every parent would have found the guilt hard to cope with in such a situation, and it must have been difficult to keep this from a child. this alone would have caused a child to wet the bed , without changing schools.

I have no idea where this woman lives?, but where I live, most of the mothers work , part time if not full.
In the last few years more fathers have been able to take part in the school drop off and pick up times.
The whole school playground is full of every type of childcare. I have always assumed this to be the norm for all of the UK these days?!!

Your childs education is done to the quality of the class teacher and the management skills of the head teacher. It makes little difference if the school is private or state.
Always remember, if a school is private, its run for the profit, and that doenst = the best in all things for your child indivdually.