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Question What is making you happy today?

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Mad Cyril said:
I would love to work in Southend or Chelmsford but would be looking at a 50 to 60 percent pay cut.
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That much? Jeez....I'm lucky that I'm well paid and my commute is a 15 min cycle. If I got a job in London (in NR) it really wouldn't be worth my time unless I jumped several pay bands, and that ain't going to happen!
 
Pubey said:
We're viewing primary schools this autumn, which is completely crazy. I'm too young for all this responsibility!
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It's a minefield mate....the one she's leaving has failed it's last Ofsted. It's a poor school and it's about time the Head went. The next one is the senior school....now that's scary as our local one is crap.
 
MK Shrimper said:
It's a minefield mate....the one she's leaving has failed it's last Ofsted. It's a poor school and it's about time the Head went. The next one is the senior school....now that's scary as our local one is crap.
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We don't even have a local one. They tried to set one up a few years ago but it fell through because the committee couldn't agree on a site. There were two in the offing, and they argued for so long it all fizzled out. There is simply no school secondary in our area, and most kids end up in a dump of a school with a really bad reputation if they don't pass the entrance exam for a group of schools. It's either pass be dumped...or go private.

I hate the idea but we did attend an open day at a local private school a couple of weekends ago, but at £15,000 a year I think it's time to get my eldest into a cricket team. I think he's good enough to win a sports scholarship for football and cricket, but he'll need to prove it!
 
londonblue said:
We don't even have a local one. They tried to set one up a few years ago but it fell through because the committee couldn't agree on a site. There were two in the offing, and they argued for so long it all fizzled out. There is simply no school secondary in our area, and most kids end up in a dump of a school with a really bad reputation if they don't pass the entrance exam for a group of schools. It's either pass be dumped...or go private.

I hate the idea but we did attend an open day at a local private school a couple of weekends ago, but at £15,000 a year I think it's time to get my eldest into a cricket team. I think he's good enough to win a sports scholarship for football and cricket, but he'll need to prove it!
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Eek! Besides, I'm not sure my socialist principles would allow it....:winking:

Some kids from MK go to Grammars in Aylesbury, so maybe that would be the answer, but do I need to overload her with all the stress?
 
MK Shrimper said:
Eek! Besides, I'm not sure my socialist principles would allow it....:winking:

Some kids from MK go to Grammars in Aylesbury, so maybe that would be the answer, but do I need to overload her with all the stress?
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If it is OK for Dianne Abbott and Shami Chakrabarti then its OK for you.

I did think about private schools a few years ago but it turned out it was a massive over reaction on my behalf.
 
MK Shrimper said:
Not at £15K a year it isn't. :stunned:
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Tell me about it. We can't afford that even if we wanted him to go, but if he doesn't pass the entrance exam for the consortium of schools we don't really have any choice. And I flatly refuse to put my son under pressure to pass an exam at 10 years old. His mental health is more important than that.
 
MK Shrimper said:
Eek! Besides, I'm not sure my socialist principles would allow it....:winking:

Some kids from MK go to Grammars in Aylesbury, so maybe that would be the answer, but do I need to overload her with all the stress?
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Aren't grammer schools against your socialist principles?
 
* ORM * said:
Would grammar schools help with spelling?
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only those that are already good at spelling, then the grammars would crow about how they got kids to pass 10 GCSEs at A grade when they were destined to achieve that anyway

(I live in a grammar area, my kids get A grade GCSEs at the nearest mixed, non religious comp - for context)
 
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