Quote Originally Posted by biara View Post
CL, was expecting your comments and glad to see you didn't disappoint.

My view on schooling is all should be able to achieve to the best of their ability, the fact is the local school did not do that. My eldest is a great child but circumstances have given her a pretty unfair start in life and the local comp did not deliver. My wife and I then took the decision to go private as we wanted the best possible for her.

Yes, stand by your principles, I agree with but only to a point, where we did live (Hertford) there were 2 decent comps on the doorstep, I'd have sent her to them quite happily.

I agree on grammar schools being divisive and I do have issues with those just below the thrshold. Latest research apparently states the brain is not fully developed until aged about 24, so choosing at 11 seems wrong.

I think principles are correct but at times, they need to be looked at and maybe swallow your pride and go against them. But that is my view and I'm happy to accept you view things differently.
Biara there is nothing wrong with changing your principles when you realise they are wrong. I've done lots of things in my life that were wrong, and I can't change them now. All I can do is make sure I don't do them again, by changing my ideas on certain things.

To criticise something for being good is dishonest and hypocritical. You say the private school is giving your daughter a better education, then in the next breath you say I don't like private.

The honest thing to say is "I used to believe in state education, but since my daughter has been going to private school, I've seen the light.Now I support private education."

That isn't what you are doing though. You're stabbing in the back the very principles that make your daughter's education possible.