Apparently R&BHS is, so I'm sending my son into a 5/7 year hell from which he will emerge scarred and on track to a life of jail hopping, robberies and heroin.

 

If I sell the family silver, I can always send him to Bolton School where he runs the risk of ending up exactly the same only with better contacts inside jail and a bigger Adam's apple.

 

Alternatively, I could send him to a Catholic school where the chances are excellent that he'll be slurping down a fistful of Papal-approved love custard before he's finished his first assembly.

 

Shall I just teach him from home, or send him up Winter Hill to beat the floor with a spade?

Is that a bad thing?

 

Assume it saves time getting changed and fucking about. More time for actual PE.

 

Our lad is at Turton and there are loads of soft sort trying to avoid PE because they can’t be arsed. I imagine this stops some of that too.

 

My gripe is the last part of what I said mate.

 

Being ready for it is good.

It’s all about how much support, guidance and time you give your children.

 

Time is the most important one and parents are very busy these days, so it’s difficult.

 

They must be happy and society puts too much pressure on kids these days.

 

If you are fortunate enough to live near a Grammar school, do everything you can to try for that.

 

Ignore where his mates are going. You’re the adult, you know best and in years to come he will thank you for it.

Edited July 4, 20188 yr by captainmed

Little Hulton High was great

 

Knocked down now, real shame

It’s all about how much support, guidance and time you give your children.

 

Time is the most important one and parents are very busy these days, so it’s difficult.

 

They must be happy and society puts too much pressure on kids these days.

 

If you are fortunate enough to live near a Grammar school, do everything you can to try for that.

 

Ignore where his mates are going. You’re the adult, you know best and in years to come he will thank you for it.

Not sure about the Grammar school thing, as I've said my eldest is going to one this year as it was her choice and she passed the 11 plus, but I'm certainly not sure it's a recipe for success just by virtue of being a grammar.

 

This is my first experience of selective education, and all I know so far is that the uniform is fucking expensive - monogrammed lab coats?!? has to be the right shirt - no nipping down to Asda?!

Not sure about the Grammar school thing, as I've said my eldest is going to one this year as it was her choice and she passed the 11 plus, but I'm certainly not sure it's a recipe for success just by virtue of being a grammar.

 

This is my first experience of selective education, and all I know so far is that the uniform is fucking expensive - monogrammed lab coats?!? has to be the right shirt - no nipping down to Asda?!

 

 

Lab coats, absolutely no point, 6 schools I've worked in and not one had lab coats for the kids, that's so they look good on pictures...

Lab coats, absolutely no point, 6 schools I've worked in and not one had lab coats for the kids, that's so they look good on pictures...

I reckon it should be compulsory for lab coats. Just me mind

Monogrammed fucking lab coats!?

 

I have heard it all now...

Monogrammed fucking lab coats!?

 

I have heard it all now...

 

Do they go to Hogwarts?

This one might need a little tweak here and there . . .

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/mock-slave-auction-black-student-white-pupils-bath-school-whipped-tied-up-a8255206.html

 

Kids are kids and it's easy to fly off the handle hearing that headline but that is pretty raw in any day and age  . . .  Even LL pupils wouldn't have stooped to that level

 

For me you can use a situation like this positively if you handle it right - reading the comments folk either seem happy to shrug it off, which is waaaaay wrong, or suggest we all still want to relive slavery times as if it's still in all 'our' blood. 

 

Again though, I can't help feeling that (well, i know there are in schools anyway) there are racial incidents from all races up and down the country but it's only the white perpetrator ones that get reported on.  Bugs me

Edited July 4, 20188 yr by madthatter

Manc, your's went to rivi with the Previous headmaster, nice bloke, very good head teacher.

 

The school was then LEA and is now academy, different head and restructured. I did my teacher training there, it's a tough school. 

 

There are no bad teachers anymore, they have all been bulllied/pushed out or gone to the private sector. However there is a culture of ruthlessness by "executive heads" that need to hit targets. The ones that are still in schools hang on but it is stressful. I've been very lucky where i have found a school where the head leaves the business side to his deputies and shows a real interest in the students and their needs. 3 classes today, first group was year 9 top set computer science hanging on every word about variables and loops, next was a SEN support group (mixture of SEND/behaviour), very draining.. last was a Year 9 set 2, hard work but fun to teach. You have to take the rough with the smooth. They're all a dream compared to the last school. 

 

Education starts at home, if you spend time with your kid, encourage them to learn and show an interest 9/10 it translates to the classroom. The school will facilitate the rest. Granted some do majorly mess up, but as a teacher you can tell which parents want the best for their kids and it does reflect with their attitude in the classroom. 

 

Great points swanny. Didn't know that they'd changed headmaster either

 

Absolutely agree with what you say about parenting

Do they go to Hogwarts?

???? you’d think it! No, it’s a very dilapidated 1930s building, that is actually going by to be pulled down I think - most of the rooms seem semi permanent!

 

But it’s where she wants to go, and she did the bloody work to get to choose, and we all liked it the best.

 

Lab coats are only 12 quid but add it to the rest and it’s just shy of £300!

my unifom in 77 came to about 100

 

inc lab coats and football kit

The local girl's catholic grammar round my way has this posh striped blazer.

 

A 140 of your English pounds apparently

My girls went to Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham which is a great school but if they did struggle with a subject we just got a family friend/tutor for a short period to support them through. I agree 100% with the other comments around parental support, it is so important as sadly many parents see school as an extended child minding facility 

My girls went to Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham which is a great school but if they did struggle with a subject we just got a family friend/tutor for a short period to support them through. I agree 100% with the other comments around parental support, it is so important as sadly many parents see school as an extended child minding facility

With that level of support your kids would probably have done equally as well at the local comp.

With that level of support your kids would probably have done equally as well at the local comp.

I agree, my lad went to a state school in Salford and did equally as well but he was our third child so we had no precedent to work on for the girls. Having said that i wouldn't change the decisions we made as all 3 are happy with their school experience.

I agree, my lad went to a state school in Salford and did equally as well but he was our third child so we had no precedent to work on for the girls. Having said that i wouldn't change the decisions we made as all 3 are happy with their school experience.

Again that's half the battle. A happy kid is a kid who will more than likely fulfill their potential.

At the end of the day all that matters academically at school is getting the relevant grounding/results in whatever field they feel that they want to go into at 18.

Once you've got into college no one gives a shit about your gcse grades (as long as you have at least a c in English and maths). As all kids have to do college courses of some description now by the time you leave at 18.

Today she’s gone for her third induction, spending half a day there and then a final one with kids in her local area, and to look at the school support services.

 

They take a really detailed approach to intergration which is pleasing, they seem to wear their academia lightly so to not overburden the kids - happy so far but very very early days.

 

Interestingly one of Alma Mater from the school’s boys division is Milo Yannopolous and the school got into the papers for having a free space debating society to discuss things that might seem in PC and distasteful. Maybe I’ve sent her to a right wing indoctrination camp!

Here’s a good a place as any, there’s a free event at Bolton School this Saturday which may be of interest. It’s a English Civil War day starting at 10 and as the battle re-enactment starts at 1pm you can watch a bit of that before the match.

my unifom in 77 came to about 100

 

inc lab coats and football kit

Wolves

except the mancs who got yellow from the co-op

Anyone remember Thornleigh 1980 when girls first allowed in?

Huge shock for us: single sex schools are just evil!