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Will you be sending your children to a private or state school

State... it would never even cross my mind about private. I live in the Northwest in a village of about 11,000. Theres a high school which is very good with a good 6th form (although i chose to goto a better one), 4 primary schools and 1 christian independant school. i would never even consider sending my child to the public school, even though the fees arnt that much compared to, say Eton or Rugby. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the high school I went to. It was a lovely place with about 250 in each year. Mainly middle class families, not many scallies. A few bad ones but never any bullying and a brilliant management.

Public schools arnt all that good. Merchant Taylor Girls got 99% GCSE 5 A*-C but Merchant Taylor Boys got 29%! My state mixed comprehensive high school got 63% 5 A*-C! I would've expected higher as I dont understand how you cant get 5 C's.. but public schools are definately not better from my experience and knowledge.

Reply 41

The_Goose

18

.Ed.

Oh right. I thought it was dead and people confused the old 11+ with entrance exams for more popular schools at 11. This Kent thing seems strange and old fashioned. Surely it's fairer to go to your local school rather than segregating people into clever and thick schools.

just the way it is. if you do badly on the kent test you go to castle, if you do mediocre you go to walmer. Pass your kent test but fail your dover exam you go to sandwich or manwoods. But some people don't like dover as much as manwoods. My cousins daughter turned her place at dover down to go to manwoods, and in that area of kent it's like turning down oxford to go to leeds. still very good, but not the best. People get really hyped up about it

Reply 42

Purple

15

Private, unless it was a very good state school.

Reply 43

Medicine Man

16

grammar school
then private school (if its near home and is worth the money)
then finally state school (but it has to be a good one)

bear in mind i went to a really bad state school for my gcse's (30% 5 a*-c) - it didn't do me much harm and i'm now in a grammar school.

i think the grammar school system's quite good as its disciplined and brings the best out of pupils, but then again so do some private schools. Simply put, since i'm now in a grammar school, i prefer it there and i think it'll be beneficial to my kids. However, private schools are good but i don't want my kinds growing up thinking they'll get what ever the ask for. State schools like my old one which had knives and gang fights daily- definitely a NO NO!!! but if its a reasonable one near the family home, then thats fine.

After all, its down to the individual. Not to say that a good school wouldn't help the individual reach their full potential, but a its primarily down to the person.

Reply 44

The_Goose

18

exactly my point you went to a bad state school and yet still managed to achieve 10A*'s

Reply 45

SpiritedAway

17

neither. i'd homeschool them. i hated primary school. i've never experienced private school, but i'd never want my kid to think that they were better than anyone else (not saying that private schoolers do, but i'd want them to work hard with what they've got, not have all the extras). i've had experience in grammar schools, and they tend to be quite old fashioned, and although i've mostly grown up in state schools, they also have their cons.

Reply 46

clallen2

1

I think that as a young child (primary school age) i would probably send them to a state school.
If i had the resources, at 11 i would look into good private schools, but i would take into account to some extent the choice of my child.
If the child was more talented, driven and interested in music/ballet/drama/other dance types/etc and struggled with academic subjects then i'd consider a specialist school for their interest.
Of course the decision will not be just mind i will have to take into consideration the thoughts of my partner.

EDIT: If i had, say 3 school-aged children, but i didn't have the money to send all of them to a excellent independent school, then i wouldn't send any of them private. What would be the point in paying for a run of the mill school. Instead, i would use the money that i did have to help them excel in other ways e.g. clubs/tutors/book, etc if/when necessary.

Reply 47

Trevor 12345

3

Llamaaa

aye it does - you need it to get into Leeds Grammar school.

Leeds grammar school hasn't existed as such for several years; I think you mean The Grammar School at Leeds. Nontheless, Leeds Grammar school stopped using the 11+ around about the time it stopped being a grammar school in the true sense of the word which was in the 1970's.

They then became an independent school and used their own entrance exams.

Reply 48

hermaphrodite

15

.Ed.

What, the 11+ is long dead... People don't do it anymore.

there are 164 grammar schools edit: when i last checked

Reply 49

Medicine Man

16

so we agree - it IS down to the individual

Reply 50

CHAMON

11

The_Goose

private school doesn't necessarily mean boarding school..

I know, my assault was aimed at boarding schools only. :smile:

Reply 51

Robob

17

SpiritedAway

neither. i'd homeschool them. i hated primary school. i've never experienced private school, but i'd never want my kid to think that they were better than anyone else (not saying that private schoolers do, but i'd want them to work hard with what they've got, not have all the extras). i've had experience in grammar schools, and they tend to be quite old fashioned, and although i've mostly grown up in state schools, they also have their cons.

Homeschooling would probably screw them up imo.

I'd pick the best school in the area and try to send them to that.

Reply 52

QI Elf

17

I would like to send my daughter to my all girls private school and my son to the all boys down the road, ideally.

However, I want to live in Germany when I am older so would probably have children there and would send them to either a local state funded German school or international school (possibly depending on if my husband was German or English, or indeed, another nationality!!!) Even if I didn't live in Germany, the likelyhood of me being a) able to afford the fees or b)still living here are minimal!!!

Reply 53

Crosseyed And Painless

13

Move 'em to the woods and homeschool 'em.

Reply 54

The_Goose

18

I would never have my kids home schooled. I think it's wrong to deny them the social experiences of school. I don't think that experience can be gained anywhere else

Reply 55

*River

15

It'll depend on where I live, what the local schools are like, and whether or not I could even afford to contemplate privately educating my kids.

The one thing I'm 100% sure I'm NOT going to do is send my kids to boarding school (unless I had a job that sent me to a desert in the middle of nowhere with no international schools or something); having (survived) 7 years of it myself, I'm convinced that there's something inherently unnatural about it, and it really isn't the right thing for a lot of kids.

Reply 56

scaryhair

12

State, definitely. A good state school preferably, but I went to a pretty bad one and still came out alright, and so should they.

Reply 57

NickkO

Whatever in the neigborhood qualifies as good education.

I would NEVER send my children to boarding school. I want to be the one raising them, not a bunch of old farts in tweed jackets.

Reply 58

*River

15

NickkO

Whatever in the neigborhood qualifies as good education.

I would NEVER send my children to boarding school. I want to be the one rasing them, not a bunch of old farts in tweed jackets.

Oh the stereotypes :p:

Reply 59

brokenangel

16

grammer or private day school

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