When parents are slagging off the local comp...

[Everyoneafter3]

I've posted before about my concerns over the local secondary, which, thanks to comments on this board and an excellent recent Ofsted, are very much allayed. I had a very good read of school newsletters etc and am much happier. Dd1 (Y4) is musically gifted and will also audition for a specialist music school.

The area in which we live is very affluent: many children round here go to fee-paying independent schools. These dc are going to school and telling my dd (and others) that the local secondary is rubbish ("my mum and dad say..."). One particularly stupid parent has said at home that "no child of mind will set foot in x school" which of course is coming back home with our dd.

Dd1 has now got it into her head that the local school is terrible, that she's really upset to go to not a good school, that she wishes we weren't poor (we're not! But no, we can't afford independent school fees without having to sacrifice other stuff we prioritise as a family). She's been researching exam results and all sorts.

For our part we've said well look at any local school she'd like to, although as we live across the road from the school in question it'd be unlikely that she'd get in.

I'm heartily sick of parents telling their dc how awful the local school is. It's simply not fair. My dc won't receive a 'lesser' education. They aren't going to a 'rubbish' school. If this continues I'm tempted to speak to their current primary school tbh. What else can I do? I've told dd to not listen, we've looked at the school website, talked about results (!) but I'm at a loss.

[MumTryingHerBest]

Clavinova - We don't even know how many boys from QEBS even apply to Oxford - they seem to favour Cambridge.

I don't know the firgure for 2016 but the figures for 2015 are here:

www.ox.ac.uk/about/facts-and-figures/admissions-statistics/undergraduate/additional-info/applications-and-acceptances-ucas-apply-centre?wssl=1

28 applied, 7 accpetances, 25% acceptance rate.

I have recently been told by a QE parent that the 2016 figure was higher but I don't have an independant source to back that up. Her DC is hoping to study medicine at Imperial.

[Alyosha]

Ontopof - odd comment. It's perfectly possible there are Westminster pupils with predicted grades of AAB who get offered A*AA and then go on to achieve it (motivation is a great thing!).

We have no idea!

In any case, privately educated pupils dominate in Medicine, Dentistry, Law etc as well.

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/8386004/Independent-school-pupils-dominate-medicine-courses.html

[goodbyestranger]

I think that scenario is very unlikely: the prediction as well as the offer.

[Ontopofthesunset]

Your suggestion, as goodbye says, is odder. Why would you assume such a thing when there are tens of Westminster students being predicted higher grades?