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school fees help

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stressystressed · 18/10/2009 18:49

is there a way to get help with school fees if you fall into the 'too well off for a bursary but can't afford full fees' gap???

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MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 20:50

I should hopefully have a show in London next year I'll invite you both . You might hate the work!

I would love three dc, I come from a large family and loved that too. Or even four but that might be pushing it somewhat!

thedolly · 20/10/2009 20:57

Ah, so this is what hijacking a thread is - is it allowed or frowned upon?

I can't believe you are fully pg and thinking of a third.

Any links? Not that I'm offering to critique your work but it might be something I like and I do like discovering new things .

I'm guessing abstract.

thedolly · 20/10/2009 20:58

x posts Marsha

Ooh please do.

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 20/10/2009 21:06

That's so kind - I have 3 DCs too and I love it - always felt there was someone missing until DS2 came along.

Yes this is hijacking - think it's okay if we apologize and make it brief - or there's the CAT thing which I don't know if I'm on.

What's an o/s gallerist? Open Studio? (last question honestly).

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 20/10/2009 21:14

Thedolly - I well remember that feeling of being about to hit the buffers - it particularly hit me when a friend with 3 DCs at secondary school said she'd just written a cheque for £14k.

Not funny.

Jajas · 20/10/2009 21:19

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MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 21:21

Overseas gallerist. Saw work in New York art fair I think (had a London one at time who saw work at college).

Yy to feeling more complete, the gap is quite big ds already at reception so am enjoying this pg as much as possible!

Weirdly I feel better when pg, which is a bit dangerous. Dh thinks that if there are no school fees or I help out then can have more, hence the interest in good state.

Surely hijack is ok when it's just us here..

thedolly · 20/10/2009 21:24

Where I live we have a three tier system which means starting senior school at 13. Our catchment SS has a great reputation and good results. The next county along has some great grammar schools and I'm not sure whether to even consider them. Did sending your DC to grammar school make the move easier for you OurLady?

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 20/10/2009 21:28

I'm sure it's fine . . . So did you study Fine Art? < envious >

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 21:39

Studied commerce and arts, then MA fine art. Equally loved maths, physics and analytical theory and the purity of art. Although it is a market based on £ like any other.

My friends who continued with commerce married City bankers etc I try not to get distracted by that either as I feel my desires have swung to big family, good education and a dog etc since I see now my own mother has had a lovely life! I hope to get there too.

thedolly · 20/10/2009 21:42

Jajas - we've paid school fees for the last 5 years and you sort of stop thinking of it as 'money' and you certainly don't think what else you could be doing with it .

Marsh - I loved being pg. For some people school fees are a great form of contraception. A lot can change in a few years wrt good schools. The school that my DC will be going to has really improved since we moved here 5 years ago. 5 years is also how long the current Head has been in her post so she has obviously been instrumental in improving things.

thedolly · 20/10/2009 21:47

Do 'analytical theory' and the 'purity of art' go together or does the 'analytical theory' pertain to the physics? Sounds fascinating.

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 22:04

Commerce was quantitative methods etc and the BA bit was all theory, cultural theorists and philosophical analysis (is analysis right word there, been a while). I was hooked and diverged from the commerce career.

Then the MA was to see if I could use that theory to do something visual in paint (I liked paint because it has a history and it progresses and brush marks have a language and meaning and I could dither around with what it all meant).

Although people looking at the work most probably just see normal paintings! Not particularly radical at all (not abstract). But the theory helped me be interested enough to do it in first place.

Of course doing all this didn't realise how much better than most things being pg and having dc run around is. Could easily embrace all that.

thedolly · 20/10/2009 22:22

It sounds so interesting and is an area of study I know nothing about. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate.

I once tried painting as an adult. Nothing creative, just 'ripping off' a Clausen painting. The subject matter was landscape/agricultural and I was surprised at how much more I noticed about the actual landscape around me, the purples in the hay etc.

I love the idea of brush marks having a language and a meaning. The Musee D'Orsay has the most fabulous collection of impressionist paintings - lots of 'pointillism' too. What's the language there I wonder?

Don't feel like you have to reply btw, I know I'm rambling now .

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 20/10/2009 22:43

Marsha, would you mind CAT- ing me?

I once started a thread about doing an MA in Fine Art but would love to ask questions of someone who's done it.

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 22:54

I have to say I didn't look at pointillism, I wonder if it rather buggers up my theory . A time consuming way to paint without much of a broad sweep of the hand, I wonder too.

OurLady yes of course, do. I'll try and help. I haven't signed up to CAT but will check in morning if I need to.

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 22:55

I mean how to cat..

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 20/10/2009 23:00

I've signed up for it so I think you just have to click the Contact Poster link.

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 23:07

Ok brilliant, will do in the morning.

colditz · 20/10/2009 23:13

I cannot help wondering if the sheer stress of knowing that your parents basically signed their life away to get you into a certain school wouldn't fuck with your head a little.

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 23:22

I missed that bit, who is signing their life away?

colditz · 20/10/2009 23:24

I mean people who make a commitment to private school either knowing they are going to be skint for the next 15 years, or thinking they might be.

But then, I am a naturally cautious person, and that situation would terrify me.

MarshaBrady · 20/10/2009 23:31

Oh I see, yes if the stress is too much it does make sense to relieve some of the pressure.

I suppose my parents had loads of stress in order to send 4 dc to boarding school. I never felt like they were working hard for us, or felt a burden. But then it would have been nice to see my father more and him to not be so cross and stressed. But then I think that was perculiar to him.

MarshaBrady · 21/10/2009 13:07

OurLady my comp won't allow me to CAT.

But I have set up an email address just for yooo (and the rest of mn)

marshabradymn (at) googlemail.com

I'll check it later today!

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