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Save money on your childrens education.

Don't send them to private schools ... Move to dagenham.

There is a school in England which has ....
Two thousand pupils.
800 Computers.
300 Printers
A leisure Centre with 35 members of staff.
A multimillion pound Sports Centre.
Is it Eton or Harrow? No.
Is it a public school? No.
It is a school in East London.
The headmaster excluded 300 pupils in the first week that he was in the job.
He was this Knighted this year.
See for yourself.
http://www.robert-clack.bardaglea.org.uk/aboutus/StaffList.cfm
If you look through the staff list you will see that it includes a Policeman
and four attendance officers
..

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  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    Actually pupil numbers in private schools have dropped as parents struggle to pay school fees.

    In some ways your arguments against private/public schools are nonsensical. Parents who send their children to establishments outside of the state system still pay taxes to fund state education. For every extra pupil that attends a state school means use of more public resources and less available for existing state school pupils.
    The man without a signature.
  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    And the GCSE results stood at 40% in 2008, with only 13% gaining a language GCSE.

    Not sure that's worth moving to Dagenham for.

    May be OK if you've got naughty kids who aren't interested in schoolwork, though.
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