How the other half live: one year on..

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Channel 4 tonight 9pm.

Will anyone be watching?

I'm looking forward to seeing how things have gone since the families were helped out.

That's great to hear Verity.

I'm OW at what has happened to tonights family.

WOW even.

The mum is lovely, bit sad that the kids didnt always respond to her emails

It was great to see how the Gumbos were getting on a year later.
They've been given a fantastic opportunity which will really change their lives. I did find it sad though that the girls were away from their mum and little sister.

bugger

didnt know this

is it repeated?

And what happens to their little sister? I have very mixed feelings about what I saw last night. It didnt sit very comfortably with me at all. Surely there were selective grammer schools in their area? Although the rich couple were very nice, the whole thing felt very wrong to me. I hope when those girls grow up they dont take it out on their mother.

I felt really sorry for that Mother. She'd 'lost' two of her children in a way. Perhaps the two girls will look after her when they have their successful careers borne out of their priveleged education. I hope the schools have committed to offering the youngest girl the same too though.

I thought how generous but the poor Mother. And what about the younger girl?

why havent they paid for the Mother to visit? surely others must visit at weekends

They went to that particular school because the Head sorted it out for them.

I felt really sad for the mum too. Would of liked to have seen her move closer to the school so she could see them a bit more often.

What a fab opportunity though. Did anyone notice how much the girls accent had changed towards the end.

did they have to pass an exam to get into that school? I never saw the original one. I felt very sorry for the mum and I will feel even more sorry for her and the little girl if they other two become ashamed of them. I dont believe for a minute that the head master wouldnt have know the rich couple in some way, its all connections from that world. I appreciate the opportunity they were given but Im sure if someone hadve pointed them in the right direction, they couldve sat the entrance exam for a local grammer school. I found it very patronnising

Yes - they did have to sit an entrance exam. The youngest will also have access to the same opportunity.

I found it really sad, that poor mother had done so much for them, the eldest girl seemed to resent where she had come from. I can't imagine how hard it was for their mum and they couldn't spare the time to reply to her emails!

Did it say that the youngest one will be going? Then the poor woman will be left with no-one. I dont know how I feel really. Its reminding me of that Sandra Bullock film The Blind Side. Uncomfortable.

Yes, it was arranged for all of them There's loads of private day schools in London.

Especially in Hammersmith where they were. It made no sense to me. Alot of back patting, I feel. That poor woman, you could tell that there was already a difference between her and her daughters.

It was really sad to watch, I really felt for her. Surly it would have made more sense to move the whole family out of that tower block and into the countryside so they could all benefit? You don't have to send children off to boarding school to make their lives better.

It was the school that saw the original programme and offered the children an education. It wasn't the 'rich' family that organised it, it was the school itself.

From what I gathered anyway.

I will never believe that school and the rich family were not connected in some old boy network way. I just wont.

kittya, not everyone with money knows each other!

it is sad for the mum but an amazing opportunity for the girls.

as for saying the mum should have been moved to live near the new school - who should have paid for it? giving someone a few thousand pounds is slightly different to buying a house

Didnt the daughter of the rich family end up going to the same boarding school? It might have been a fantastic opportunity but, to what cost to the family? it was very sad that they were separated and didnt want to go home for weekends. No, I wasnt comfortable with it.

I didn't suggest that they had a house brought for them, they could rent, it will probably cost the same as the current rent. There's alot of things that could have been done to help the family whilst keeping them together.