I’ve explained why.
I am less than impressed with the recent investigative exploits of @fatso
Not only has sir missed the obvious, quoted explanation, but it also appears from your highly-liked post that you only realised I was on a wind-up when I mentioned a conversation I had, and not the almost literal grenade I attached to a post I wrote a couple of days ago.
If your solve rate doesn’t improve, we’ll have you on traffic duty.
20k a year is a fortune and no way could we afford that, we’d move, you’re right we would, a few have done it around here and I don’t blame them for a second, fuck southerners commenting on issues they don’t know, arrogance to even fucking talk about it. If we got funding correctly then yes but there isn’t, its fucked.
I’m not really disagreeing with much of the sentiment, more your style of posting and the lack of respect and understanding of the education system that you have displayed. Read your first post here (above) and then read the one below. At best this is contradictory (“effort innit” in top post is replaced by “the same school got my son into a red brick”) at worst it shows a lack of coherent thought. Your daughters have had, by the sound of it, good schooling and supportive parents. Why do you assume that that combination is so readily availablel? When you so easily dismissed TCK when he talked about the SEN and behaviour problems in the lower sets, maybe your daughters were never exposed to this as the were the high fliers in the top sets? My main issue with pretty much all of your posts is the arrogance that goes with them. Why on earth would you think you know more than an experienced teacher about education? It’s fucking mental.
That same school also got my eldest into a red brick, my youngest a GCSE at fourteen, an A level (hopefully) at seventeen and a clear path to four A levels and a potential Oxbridge spot if she wants it.
In short principles go out the window for the protection and advancement of your kids, I don’t believe in murder but I’d kill anyone who harmed my kids, I hope that cleared things up.
Which doesn’t invalidate the point. Dressed up as sympathetically as you like, the parents won’t send their kids there because there are too many kids there with learning and/or behavioural difficulties **per member of qualified staff. ** It boils down to the same thing, and it’s not something unique to independents.
Bit in bold is my addition.
Excellent, you’re really clever. Why are you even interested in winding up members of your forum? Lots of people left SWF to get away from trolls and now it turns out that the bloke running this place is one as well. Except that it doesn’t really feel like you’re trolling. It feels like you’re saying your own bonkers truth but claiming it’s a wind up because some people have pointed out how silly it all sounds.
I am still waiting for what I can do @saint-or-sinner I have been waiting all day for a suggestion as you seem so confident in your educational approach, I’ll pass it on to all the other parents as well in the area as they’d loved to know.
Having trust in the long term school system and a holistic view of education aren’t mutually exclusive concepts, @fatso . It is possible to teach your kids to read and write pre-school and send them to a decent school. ms pap deserves the vast majority of the credit in our case for that, but my mum taught me at that age too.
Most state school kids are in some form of mixed ability class at every stage in their education, even if they start streaming on specific subjects. There were no sets in drama, in home economics, in what was then called ICT (completely different discipline) or any other number of other subjects at secondary school. That was the case with me, and with my daughters.
I’ve already conceded that all schools are not equal, but there are alternatives to sending your kid to a fee-paying independent, even if it means uprooting yourself, and that is something people do to an extent that drives house prices.
So no, the combination is not always readily available, which is why effort can get your kid into a good state school, either through education or relocation. If someone can afford 20K p.a. per kid, they can afford to move house.
As usual, it’s the people who’ve got fuck all without the real options. They won’t be paying 20k per kid either.
Fair enough.
I thought that was a fairly neutral way of addressing your claims.
The dark glasses must be on again.
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So what do you suggest in my situation then?
See, there’s not a lot in here that I would disagree with. It’s a shame that even when you have something reasonably sensible to say you have to say it in such an irritating and arrogant manner that it puts people off. Just post normally - use normal words and stop trying to wind people up (which really is bizarre - I can’t think of another board where the owner goes out of his way to alienate people). Not every conversation is a competition to win.
Donald Trump.
Barry, why do you keep talking about TV programmes i have never heard of and a film. Don’t you live in the real world, that you have been telling others they don’t, but should?
You’re a figurative chameleon.
You have a question to answer just a bit up there as does Pap.
She is a cunt.
Have a look.
She is saying word for word what you are saying. You are the same.
Get over it please, @fatso .
For whatever reason, and my personal opinion is that we’ve never met face to face, you seem to perceive my posts and/or intentions though a very negative lens, something I’ve already remarked upon.
It’s getting a bit tiring, and I think it’s premature to make such personal judgements on such limited content with such an apparent bias. You don’t know me, mush. I honestly don’t know why you think you do.