You faaahkin mappets.
Words fail me.
But I really hate repeating myself, and I’ve said all this before.
More than once, in fact.
Bad idea, parents.
Just.
Don’t.
Really.
J x
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The Secular Problem
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
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My local state school has to have police officers at the gates at closing times.
Come live here, and then tell me that you would willing send your kids there.
Bugger off would you.
Ok, you had a bad experience. Doesn't always work that way.
My school days weren't the happiest days of my life (it must be depressing if anyone actually thinks that's true of themselves), but were enjoyable enough and I don't doubt the minor public school I attended, helped me get to Oxford. And before you say, it's ok if you've got the cash, the only reason my parents could afford it, was I got a scholarship.
In this case though, I do think the parents are misguided. I can see they want a better education and a better future for their children. But those same kids are not going to be better off when their parents are getting dragged through the courts, the baliffs are being sent in, and family are left relying on a council house in some grotty estate because they couldn't afford their bills.
I know the Royal Naval School as it's not far from here. I'm not convinced it's worth the scatifice....
There is a way to make the private school experience worse, which is to send a child who prefers to be alone to a boarding school as a day pupil. That really marks you out, although the advantage is that you can escape for a few hours each day. Been there, done that, burnt the T-shirt after GCEs.
My sister did better than I did, but the school had a very good music department. She has gone on to become a professional musician, and I doubt if that would have been possible from any of the state schools in the area at the time.
At least our parents had worked in education, so their choice of school for us was informed. I suspect that I'd have had trouble fitting in no matter which school I'd been to.
Sorry Juliette, you're wrong on this one.
Ok,here in Australia things may be a bit different but I imagine the problem is still the same. If you're a smart kid in a school full of morons, life is torture.
The other problem is that unless your school is selective, government schools tend to be daycare centers for parents who can't be stuffed about their kids education and kids who don't give a stuff about being there.
Furthermore they're breeding grounds for untermensch morals and vertible slag factories. Peer pressure ensures a race to the bottom. I should know, it's where I went to school.
Wow, a bit of controversy here!
All I can say is that, when it comes to answering the age-old question ‘is private education or state education better for poorer kids’ - you really need to have seen life on both sides of the fence. Or, quite frankly, you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
So while my own experiences are undeniably subjective - as all individual experiences are -
I’m the only person I know who’s been to both an insanely expensive and well-known public school, and a thoroughly bog-standard local comprehensive.
And regarding the comprehensive, we are not talking some sneakily camouflaged bastion of champagne socialist privilege, where the Michael Foots and Polly Toynbees of this world send their offspring in order to give them the best possible start for Oxbridge and the BBC without compromising their holier-than-thou social conscience.
We’re talking ‘three girls in my year got pregnant in Year 10 and a significant proportion of the boys supported the National Front.’
And I still got better grades there than I’d got in the no-expense-spared five-star educational paradise.
So go figure.
Disagree with my opinions if you will. But I defy any sod on earth to claim I’ve developed them out of ignorance…
J x
Not so much disagreeing J, more just pointing out that it may just, possibly, depend on the public school.
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