Anotehr hypocritical memeber of socialist royalty changes her mind about selective education when it affects HER child

[MrsGuyofGisbourne]

Julia Hobsbawm this time, daughter of the odious Eric.
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Apparently a bog standard comp was good enough for ther step-daughter, though...

juju - I went to an event she compered a few months ago (it was about blogging) and she said then that her experience of MN was that it was vicious and judgemental!

If I remember correctly she has written a book about 'juggling' work/home life when she has a husband who stays at home and looks after the children,so she got rather a hammering on here as she doesn't appear to have to 'juggle' at all......

margot - that's right. She talks about how a woman can manage career and family, then it truns out she has a SAHP. Wish I had one of those...

But back to the OP. I suspect she has been a firm supporter and user of state education until secondary level. This is very common in London. Now she finds herself being 'forced' to abandon her local community schools and use selective education.
I don't blame her actually. We all do what we can for our kids. But the temperature of the article bothers me...it seems so disingenuous and back tracking.
Why not be honest and say the local school is roobish. My kids not going there. I'll do what I have to, be that, move, find religion, tutor for a gs or pay fees for indie school. I'm just like all other MC parents. I now understand and feel a bit squirmy that I've slated them these past years.

Yes, I think honesty is the best policy and I imagine she thinks by writing that her son chose the school, not her, she is being honest. Wonder what she had done if her son had expressed a great preference to go to the local sink school

My 3 DCs all go/went to a grammar school whilst there are perfectly good comprehensives locally (in fact excellent as far as results etc go) so I found it best just to shut up and not even try to justify it. However, I do have to endure barbed comments most of the time from other parents whose DCs didn't gain a place at the GS but have done equally as well in their GCSEs or whatever.

Being a parent I have found is a great leveller. I used to be against dummies, TV, coke etc...until I had kids of my own. Then everything you've held dear goes out of the window.

I would never have believed I would send my children to a fee paying school - not in a million years. I cringe at some of the things I have said to colleagues. Ditto faith schools and grammar schools. Now I can see that we are just all trying to do our best.