Vicar wants to send his dd to private school even though he is the Governor of lovely inner city school

[iamnotaprincess]

I am really disappointed and angry about this. Ds goes to a CoE primary school here in inner city London. We were all expecting the vicar, school governor, to send his dd to the school, but no, apparently he is thinking of sending her privately. I feel outraged. It is a good school, very inner city, but a good school, the children in ds' class are thriving. How dare he? And he is a vicar!

[abride]

He probably has little choice about being on the governor's board: in our area the local vicar is automatically a governor of the CoE school. She chose not to send her child to the school because it was so close to the vicarage and she wanted them not to be on her patch.

[iamnotaprincess]

Lol, you don't get poor black people at private school.

It is the fact that he is a vicar that is a problem for me. If he were a banker, fine. But a vicar is different. His children should mix with the children of the congregation, be educated with them, etc. It is a pity for them, they don't know what they are missing. It is really a lovely school, everybody is poor, but that should not put him off.

Enough now.

[iamnotaprincess]

Lol at inventing Jesus' quotes.

[stripeyknickersspottysocks]

Its not like he's a politician who is in charge of state schools, etc. He probably won't have a choice of being a governor, it'll be part of his job as vicar. I really don't see why this means he has to send his DD to local primary school. Its none of your business.

[bran]

Methinks the OP is a troll, and not a particularly funny one.

Actually, I take part of that back. Jesus not approving of private schools was genius and hilarious, it should have had a wider audience.

BTW, I'm sure that Jesus wouldn't have approved of jeggings, but would have not only approved of Crocs but would have owned a pair it they'd been around then.

[rainbowinthesky]

It's none of your business. That's it really.

[stripeyknickersspottysocks]

Why should his children have to mix with children of the congregation?

Really puzzled by this.

I don't see why they should have to - they're not junior vicars. Their dad's job is nothing to do with them.

[ZZZenAgain]

Well I do think you have a point in that he is talking about the importance of pulling together as a community etc etc and saying how much of a thriving school you have, yet not thriving enough for his dc to attend it. So, yes, I can understand that leaving a bad taste.

However the education system in the UK at present is such that parents who can afford to pay can opt out of the state sector and send their dc to independent schools. The vicar is not exempt from this choice which is open to anyone in the country essentially who can pay for it and otherwise meet the school criteria to obtain a place.

I could imagine a few reasons why a vicar might choose a private school over the community one - maybe it's a family tradition for dc to attend this particular private school? Maybe it is very important to him for his dd to attend an all girls school? Maybe this is a feeder school to a secondary school which they would like their dc to attend for some reason or other (as above, particular academic emphasis etc).

[dilemma456]

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[GoodDaysBadDays]

The priest of my dss's primary school took his daughter out of the school in year 5 and moved her to a private school for the last 18 months (11+ coaching time) Parents weren't very impressed, personally I thought it hypocritical and it didn't do much for relations between the church and school.

[GoodDaysBadDays]

The school btw is popular and a very good school - good results, good ofsted, the one people strive to get their children in to!

[GoodDaysBadDays]

But Pixie, does she spout on about how she keeps her house so wonderfully clean and how everyone in the community should support the cleanliness of her house?

[Builde]

I'm amazed a vicar can afford the fees. They generally earn about 20,000 a year (which would barely cover school fees).

I have to admit, I'm not that impressed that our new minister has his children at a local Methodist Independent school when every child at church goes to state schools (at which - being the children of intelligent parents - they are all thriving).

[cory]

He is a vicar though, not a politician committed to the promotion of state schools or anything like that. There isn't actually anything in the Bible that says what position you have to take on state/private education, and your calling to care for the souls in the community could be fulfilled in all sorts of different ways.

I might call a Labour politician hypocritical if he did this. But a vicar- nah. You can only be a hypocrite if you preach one thing and practise another. Has he actually preached the benefits of state education? Or is he obliged to do that? Since when was "thou shalt not educate thy children privately" one of the Ten Commandments.

[Hulababy]

I work in a state primary school 10 min drive from home. I support the school wholeheartedly.

However my own DD does not go there and it was never on our list of schools. We did look at a number of schools in both secotrs but for various reasons selected a small independent girls school that we felt was best suited to our DD and to mine and my DH's circumstances at that time, and I stand by that deciosn - it was th best decision for us.

The fact that my DD doesn't go the school i work at or the school I support, or indeed a state school, does not detract from the work i do at said school.

Not sure it is much different TBH. The vicar has to chose the school that best suits his and his family's current situation.

[Hulababy]

lol at idea that it is racist to use an independent school. Is OP for real???

Do non-white children not attend independent schools then?

[maggotts]

Is it not ever so slightly racist to assume that only white children go to independent schools?

[bran]

I think the key questions here are was Jesus white, and did he go to state school? It's only once we know that answers to those questions that we can use the wwjd criteria in judging the vicar.

I should show this thread to DH. His church needed a lay person from the church to volunteer to serve on the board of govs of the church school and the vicar asked him if he would do it. I advised him not to as I thought there was a good chance that some busybody would object to him being on the board when he has a school-age child who goes to a different school.

[ClickNegg]

my dad was a vicar and I went to boarding school
get me

[ClickNegg]

..dont c of E vicars HAVE to be chair of c of e schools?