Big fish, small pondin schools or vice versa?

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la boume
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Re: Big fish, small pondin schools or vice versa?

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Agree completely with Looking For Help. No one can judge now...All schools have fair share of positive/negative sides, there is no "perfect school", in fact "perfect" is the enemy of "good" IMO. The more parents become obssesed with with the schools, the less beneficial it may be for the children.
If I understand right, one child is likely to start the school in Croydon, the other is staying in Glos, and the whole family is going to live together somewhere in between?
Waiting_For_Godot
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la boume wrote:Agree completely with Looking For Help. No one can judge now...All schools have fair share of positive/negative sides, there is no "perfect school", in fact "perfect" is the enemy of "good" IMO. The more parents become obssesed with with the schools, the less beneficial it may be for the children.
If I understand right, one child is likely to start the school in Croydon, the other is staying in Glos, and the whole family is going to live together somewhere in between?
Eldest goes to senior boarding school next year and currently boards. We would like to send youngest to Trinity (day school) but are unsure of the location and we currently live in Gloucester.
mystery
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Best thing is probably to go for what suits you best as the adult, and forms the best compromise for the child. So if you would hate living in Croydon, or within appropriate distance of Croydon, don't go. And try and make up for whatever deficits the current school has by other means. Think I need a dose of Eliot's quartets too.
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I'm not convinced there is the perfect school. Some children are less comfortable than others.
I have to say the longer my children are educated the more I agree with John Stuart Mill.
mystery
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Re: Big fish, small pondin schools or vice versa?

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Agree with him on what exactly?!
pheasantchick
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And what are Eliots Quarters?
moved
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I cannot remember the quote exactly but something along the lines of an education needs to be very good to justify depriving a child of its liberty.

This has always stuck in my mind. I enjoyed reading his work when I was a teenager! Sulky and 14 I believe I felt that my liberty to learn what interested me was more important than the education that I was given (probably the reason I ended up teaching :oops: ). I remember quoting him and arguing that school was a form of incarceration. I then went through a long period of reasonableness and now occasionally remember his views.
magwich2
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That quote has long been a favourite chez Magwich!
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Re: Big fish, small pondin schools or vice versa?

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I agree that there is no perfect school. In an ideal world our DC's would have one on one tutoring in all subjects as well as class discussions! Knowing he is bright, we looked for the school that offered him the best opportunities. And to echo an earlier post, we knew for certain which schools were wrong for DS.
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