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Spot on LillyJ. My husband's business partner has three children, one has passed the 11+ already, he is keeping his fingers crossed for the other three but I must say he would be very very fortunate to get all three in. The options apart from the grammers are very average.0
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Meester,
My husband and I both work full time and earn way above the national average but we are in our late 40's. We intend to downsize slightly and move to West Oxford area and buy a place approx £700-£750k releasing some equity. I work for a big multi national but am home based for 80% of the time so have some flexibility.
School fees are huge. First child is boarding from Sept, second is only 6. School fees this year are £27K and going up once the oldest starts senior school in a couple of years. Current senior school boarding school fees are £26k per child!!! He has an offer at one of the big boarding schools already and is a natural boarder. We are also going to look at a day school. However releasing equity will make us very very comfortably off.
Maisie,
Why has your 6-year-old and 8-year-old already taken their 11 plus?:o0 -
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pickledpink wrote: »Maisie,
Why has your 6-year-old and 8-year-old already taken their 11 plus?:o
"My husband's business partner"0 -
One point no one has really mentioned is that the reason the prices around here are so high is the grammer schools. If you had three children and they all passed the 11+ you would 'save' yourself hundreds of thousands of pounds (last 5 years of education at boarding school £26k x 5 years x 3 kids = £390k). That doesnt take into account primary education. There are fab primary schools around here. Lots of people are moving to the area, using the state primaries and then onto the grammer schools.
A boarding school is not a valid comparison.
Somewhere like RGS Guildford (day school) is £12,500/year. About £88k 11-18.0 -
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Bloody hell, there's a comforting thought: our scientists can't spell. A spoonful of George's Toxic Marvellous Medicine anyone?Really though WHO CARES??!
It's not like it has done me any harm in life! I have a scientific background, not an English one, and someone spell checked my thesis for me!
Or is that just a lazy excuse because you're too lazy to learn how to do things for yourself? Blimey, you even got someone to press "F7" for you on your thesis...!
Anyway, back to the topic...0 -
Bloody hell, there's a comforting thought: our scientists can't spell. A spoonful of George's Toxic Marvellous Medicine anyone?
Or is that just a lazy excuse because you're too lazy to learn how to do things for yourself? Blimey, you even got someone to press "F7" for you on your thesis...!
Anyway, back to the topic...
All theses get proof read by someone, it isn't lazy. Anything that is going to get published has to be, otherwise it would be full of mistakes. (If you wrote it, it's very difficult to see the mistakes despite reading it over and over) Do you really think that novels and the like aren't proof read? Spell checkers on computers are full of errors (different meanings etc) and a large proportion of the words used in scientific literature aren't in them at all.
You have an interesting concept of what constitutes being lazy. If you think being able to spell a single word correctly is key to your worth, you really need to get out more!
It isn't like the meaning of the text was lost either. My writing isn't exactly unreadable. I had better tell my employers; they wouldn't want a lazy person working for them, would they? They would rather someone with excellent spelling but who can't do the job and hasn't got the qualifications, surely
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Attention to detail should be a part of any job.
Boss: "Hey Aspie did you realise there's a spelling mistake in this document you wrote?"
Me: "WHO CARES??!"
Boss: "I'm so glad I hired this girl..."0 -
Really though WHO CARES??!
It's not like it has done me any harm in life! I have a scientific background, not an English one, and someone spell checked my thesis for me!
Lilly, much as I love you, "Grammer school" is quite amusing, sorry (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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