Alex from 'Admission Impossible' news!

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www.glebehouseschool.co.uk/features/news/view.asp?ID=52

Or, here's a clickable link:

News on Alex's place at Glebe House

Bit of a dimwit on the internet; sorry

oh that's sweet, how kind people are

Good, I hoped the prog would at least achieve that. Let's hope someone also sets up a Trust Fund for his poor overlooked sister!

fauve, my thoughts exactly! How on earth must it feel to have this much time and attention focussed on your sibling, and to have their education be so different to your own...the mum will have to be a serious supermum to ensure she is not feeling any negative effects from this!

I'm glad he got the money he needs, now how do I get on the next seris

should we set up an 'alex's sister fund?'

Yes, an 'Alex's sister's fund' - for the girl who mattered so little, we don't even know her name.

I think that's a bit harsh, the other 4 children that the hippy couple had weren't named either. Perhaps the mother wasn't keen on putting her children in front of the media - god knows I wouldn't be - but was so desperate for Alex to get funding she had to grit her teeth and allow him to be used for entertainment, in which case she should be appaulded for keeping the other child out of the three ringed circus.

it was sooooooo obvious that this was going to happen & to be completely honest although im very happy for the child, im fuming at the behaviour of that woman who calls herself a mother she knew exactly what she was doing from the start & was willing to put her child on display & his happiness at risk for the sake of a huge gamble that could very easily of backfired on the poor child with disasterous concequences.
what happens now when the child reaches 13? will she get the begging bowl out again? or throw him to the lions cage at a sink school? id be very interested to see how this all pans out.
&, as so many others have mentioned, what about his poor sister? i wonder what sort of effect all this will have on her? what will the fact that her mother spends 24/7 drumming into her the fact that shes second best going to do to the poor childs self esteem

People have said before on here, they'd give the vicar a blow job to get their kids into the best school in the area, that mother did what she had to do to get the best education for her son. If you want to be disgusted with anyone look to No 10 Downing Street, the "everyone is special" attitude these days means nobody is and education is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
As the hippy parents said when faced with Bradford Grammar, why isn't this available to everyone ?

Schools like that Bradford one are not available to all because schools like that select their pupils in order to keep out those who are
a)academically inferior
b)socially unacceptable.

Parents do the same - those who want their children to have the best education possible will seek out the best academic schools even though the school on their door step is more than able to deliver the education they seek plus there are a lot of parents who only want their off-spring mixing with their idea of the socially advantageous and acceptable sort.

It is too simplistic to blame the government. The question that should be asked is what support mechanism is there available to ensure that poor kids from deprived backgrounds, who are bright and who want to learn but find that the only schools available to them are the "sink" schools, have the opportunities afforded by the successful schools available to them.

Like it or not, schools reflect thir intake and schools in socially advantageous areas will tend to do much better than those in socially deprived areas. Kids from socially deprived areas are the ones who have very little choice about the type of school they attend.

As for Alex, I'm delighted for him. As for his mother, I hope she will use this time to get a better job and not keep relying on others to pay her way.