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Crunch raises state school demand

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  • caveman38
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    They may have privelaged home lives compared to most but they work extremely hard at school. Their results are partly down to better teaching but it is largely due to hard graft.
  • stapeley wrote: »
    Yes Private school children will have to start living in the real world .

    Mine already do thank you and so will the new one when he arrives !
    Baby Thomas born 3 months early by emergency section on 21/1/09 weighing 1lb 15ozs .
    Thomas came home after 3 months and 2 days in hospital weighing 5lb 15ozs
    Thomas weighed 21lb 4ozs on his 1st birthday , a total weight gain of 18lbs 5ozs !
  • poet123
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    Private education is a parental choice,and the sins (if some perceive them that way for their own reasons )of the parents should not be visited on the children.
  • caveman38 wrote: »
    They may have privelaged home lives compared to most but they work extremely hard at school. Their results are partly down to better teaching but it is largely due to hard graft.

    Evidence, please?
  • poet123 wrote: »
    Private education is a parental choice,and the sins (if some perceive them that way for their own reasons )of the parents should not be visited on the children.

    I am really sorry but can you explain that to me in plain English please , I am soooo tired and have a very bad headache at the mo and just can't be doing with a sentence like that :o
    Baby Thomas born 3 months early by emergency section on 21/1/09 weighing 1lb 15ozs .
    Thomas came home after 3 months and 2 days in hospital weighing 5lb 15ozs
    Thomas weighed 21lb 4ozs on his 1st birthday , a total weight gain of 18lbs 5ozs !
  • olly300
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    stapeley wrote: »
    Yes Private school children will have to start living in the real world .

    Some private schools maintain their status by kicking pupils out if they don't get high enough grades. They give you a maximum of 2 warnings before they do it.

    And the selective comprehensives myself and some of my relations have been to give you s*** if you are in the top sets and don't perform. They can't kick you out but can make your life hell as bright children normally have supportive parents.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • caveman38
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    lady_lucan wrote: »
    Evidence, please?

    Evidence of what. BTW if my post fails to make sense, I am advocating private education.
  • poet123
    poet123 Posts: 24,099 Forumite
    I mean, that every parent makes a choice how they educate their children according to their own values,means and academic wants. It is not for others to make assumptions about the children based on choices made by their parents. Every parent has the right to decide if state or private education is the way for them. It is a private matter.

    I did think that my post was reasonably clear though....
  • lady_lucan wrote: »
    Evidence, please?

    my daughter has always had an hour's homework each night from the age of 3 , now at the age of 8 she has at least 1.5 hours a night . No state school kids I know of have anything like this .
    Baby Thomas born 3 months early by emergency section on 21/1/09 weighing 1lb 15ozs .
    Thomas came home after 3 months and 2 days in hospital weighing 5lb 15ozs
    Thomas weighed 21lb 4ozs on his 1st birthday , a total weight gain of 18lbs 5ozs !
  • Thank you Poet123 for explaining that to a simpleton :D
    Pregnancy does wonders to your brain , or least that's what I like to blame it on anyway !
    Baby Thomas born 3 months early by emergency section on 21/1/09 weighing 1lb 15ozs .
    Thomas came home after 3 months and 2 days in hospital weighing 5lb 15ozs
    Thomas weighed 21lb 4ozs on his 1st birthday , a total weight gain of 18lbs 5ozs !
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