Parents of private school children..

[Imsosorryalan]

How do you find the attitude to learning? My dds are only small but our local schools aren't great and basically it's not cool to be the nerd. I'm worried, my easily led daughter may end up not achieving because of the prevalent attitude of her peers.

We may be able to afford private fees at a school close by but wondered if children have the same mentality or if they take their education a bit more seriously?

Thanks for the input. I think it's the influence of others that worries me rather than achieving highly. My dd already gravitates towards the louder bossier kids at primary and follows them round! and I think this would transfer to the 'cool' groups at secondary levels.

She certainly isn't in the top sets at school now ( I know this can all change) so I'm not looking into this purely for acedemic reasons but more for encouraging the right mindset to learning, which it seems from the above posts, private schools do more of.

I do however, realise this to be a huge generalisation, but looking at what's on offer in our local area, I can well believe this to be true.