Boarding school - good idea or bad idea?

[MarillionFan]

I'll have you know that when I was 13 I was considered 'gifted' and a child prodigy in mathematics and the sciences, and was already proficient in programming in BASIC. After 5 years of public school I considered myself lucky to get into Leicester Poly.

I believe the word used was 'special'.

[d000hg]

B***ocks. You read too many newspapers who will only ever report extremes of behaviour.

No, I'm married to a teacher and close friends with several others.

And if you think logically for a second DA, it'll be clear that the only parents who tend to come in to visit the teachers are the ones with a problem. In my experience, this is far more likely to be the middle-class parents than the chavvy ones.

[DodgyAgent]

No, I'm married to a teacher and close friends with several others.

And if you think logically for a second DA, it'll be clear that the only parents who tend to come in to visit the teachers are the ones with a problem. In my experience, this is far more likely to be the middle-class parents than the chavvy ones.

I suggest that your perspective will change when you have children. Teachers do not necessarily make good parents, and yes I also know plenty of your middle class stereo types, but these are dwarfed by the numbers of parents who like me enjoy having children irrespective of whether they are gifted or not, and rightly demand the best from their children's teachers- my children are not particularly gifted.

I am not sure what your point here is, but I would suggest that "chavvy parents" probably do not care so much about their children or that they lack the confidence to demand the best from their schools - I would think it is more of the latter. It is quite easy for intelligent teachers to intellectually bully anyone who challenges them who lacks personality/intelligence/confidence . It is a lack of confidence that I would add that is greatly down to the paucity of education they have received from the schools they attended.

[shaunbhoy]

It is a lack of confidence that I would add that is greatly down to the paucity of education they have received from the schools they attended.

DA,
I strongly suggest you get hold of a book by a guy called Frank Chalk entitled "Its Your time you're wasting".
It is a humourous indictment of all that is currently wrong with state education in this country.
I thoroughly recommend it to the house!!

[DodgyAgent]

DA,
I strongly suggest you get hold of a book by a guy called Frank Chalk entitled "Its Your time you're wasting".
It is a humourous indictment of all that is currently wrong with state education in this country.
I thoroughly recommend it to the house!!

SB

Will I have time to read it whilst carrying out my socialist culling duties on CUK?

[shaunbhoy]

SB

Will I have time to read it whilst carrying out my socialist culling duties on CUK?

Yeah. Piece of cake, and it might give you some ideas too.