Originally Posted by
Emra81
I think the crux of this latest flight of fancy, from a man who clearly has no experience of the real world, is he's effectively saying that private schools are categorically better than state schools. Nothing is that black and white. There are excellent private schools out there don't get me wrong, but there are also many outstanding state schools. Some state schools are shocking granted, but I know private schools in my own area that are poorly run and I wouldn't send my lo there if you paid me (or rather, if you paid them!) No amount of money, whether we're talking bucket loads or practically none, necessarily makes a school good or bad. It's what a school does with the resources it has that makes a difference. To champion private schools as an ideal which all state schools should live up to is ludicrous and down right insulting to all the teachers working their behinds off in state schools...it's like saying that nothing they do will ever be good enough and that they'll always be second class because they're not in a wonderous private school! Makes my blood boil....can you tell!
AND don't even get me started on the 2 year olds in full time school brain wave! My dd is 2 in a couple of months and is absolutely exhausted after a morning playing at a friends house....she'd be a physical and emotional wreck if she was in blinkin school all day. Not a chance!
Raaaaaaaaaa! And breathe!