Would You Send Your Child To A Faith School......

[TheFaQQer]

In our experience of looking at schools, there is a big difference between "satisfactory" and "outstanding"

"Satisfactory" doesn't exist as a classification any more, it'e "Requires Improvement". Then there's "Good" and then "Outstanding", so there must be a big difference between the first and third grading in the system.

Every school needs to be good. To be good, the school must be better than the average.

And just because a school is classed as outstanding when OFSTED come in, that doesn't mean that they stay that way - my nephew's school went from Outstanding to Inadequate in the space of 18 months.

[oscarose]

Who is this Buddha guy? Is he another of these so called "Scientists" that guess at what is happening and present it as fact?

I believe he was a wise man who sat under a tree for a few years to clear his troubled mind. Following such a period of enlightenment, he then kindly passed on wisdom gained to punters and regular folk of the era.

Hope that helps?

[MyUserName]

I am an atheist but I sent mine to a faith preschool. Daughter went to a standard primary school afterwards but she has specified special needs which influenced our decision there. When she goes to secondary school we intend sending her to the faith school again because it gets far better than average results. Her brother might well just stay in the faith school until he leaves school completely..

Even if she ends up being a Christian it does not really mean anything. Christians are an incredibly diverse bunch even within our church (some believe in sex before marriage, some don't, some believe in the death penalty and some don't etc.) that it is quite possible to end up a normal well rounded person even if you believe you can telepathically communicate in all powerful, super natural, creature.

[BrilloPad]

Every school needs to be good. To be good, the school must be better than the average.

How can every school be better than average?

I believe he was a wise man who sat under a tree for a few years to clear his troubled mind.

So Buddha was actually Isaac Newton? Then I withdraw my criticism. Newton was amazing - I always loved his solution to the Brachistochrone.

[TheFaQQer]

How can every school be better than average?

By getting better all the time.

This is the logic of the former education secretary, now justice secretary. But Nicky Morgan echoed the sentiment - all schools should be good. Good is better than average.

Q98 Chair: One is: if "good" requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and if all schools must be good, how is this mathematically possible?

Michael Gove: By getting better all the time.

Q99 Chair: So it is possible, is it?

Michael Gove: It is possible to get better all the time.

Q100 Chair: Were you better at literacy than numeracy, Secretary of State?

Michael Gove: I cannot remember.

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[BrilloPad]

By getting better all the time.

This is the logic of the former education secretary, now justice secretary. But Nicky Morgan echoed the sentiment - all schools should be good. Good is better than average.



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So like GCSE and A levels then? We have no idea how well anyone is doing?

In my day only the top 10% got an "A". I did get lots of "A"s - it took of slate and chalk to get there.

[oscarose]

So Buddha was actually Isaac Newton?

That's quite possible I think. Did he spend many years sitting under trees and relaxing?

[d000hg]

All schools should aspire to be above average, but clearly that's a moving target

[TheFaQQer]

All schools should aspire to be above average, but clearly that's a moving target

Aspiration is one thing. Being told that all schools must be better than average is impossible.

[MicrosoftBob]

Aspiration is one thing. Being told that all schools must be better than average is impossible.

Unless they deem them all to be above average because that requires no semblance of reality