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Gulio - as I mentioned in another post we were priced out of Tooting 10 years ago (catchment area for Graveney School).
We came to live in Sutton borough 'cos it was cheaper to buy a house here.
You keep going on how privilege we are living here - you probably don't know the area at all.
We get mugged, cars are broken into, tyres get slashed, ******** assaults on girls, dad's punched in face in the middle of park in daylight in front of their kids.
Last week at 6 pm my friend's 14 yo son was mugged outside Sainsburys.
And those are Wallington Crime News I know of.
I am sure there are plenty more if I started asking.
So - please stop calling place you are planning to send your kids to "nice".
As it is as bad as any other suburbia in the South East.
We came to live in Sutton borough 'cos it was cheaper to buy a house here.
You keep going on how privilege we are living here - you probably don't know the area at all.
We get mugged, cars are broken into, tyres get slashed, ******** assaults on girls, dad's punched in face in the middle of park in daylight in front of their kids.
Last week at 6 pm my friend's 14 yo son was mugged outside Sainsburys.
And those are Wallington Crime News I know of.
I am sure there are plenty more if I started asking.
So - please stop calling place you are planning to send your kids to "nice".
As it is as bad as any other suburbia in the South East.
sorry for calling it nice, I do not know it, must admitisamum wrote:Go - please stop calling place you are planning to send your kids to "nice".
As it is as bad as any other suburbia in the South East.
apologies if that offends, not my intention
the real point was another, hope you understand that
I agree that travelling long distances to go to school is not good, but this does not mean you have less rights to a school place because of were you live
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Guilio
No, you weren't stroppy at all, but making a very valid point.
So many people are happy to put their children through the 11+ but are unable to accept that their bright children are not as bright as others that have passed the 11+. They then say that the system is unfair. If they're not prepared to accept the downside of the 11+, then live in a county that only has comprehensives.
I think you're right to think of those poor children that have NONE of their choices. In DD2's class last year, 8 children out of 30 didn't get any of their choices.
(dashes out of door on school run to collect three children at three different schools!)
No, you weren't stroppy at all, but making a very valid point.
So many people are happy to put their children through the 11+ but are unable to accept that their bright children are not as bright as others that have passed the 11+. They then say that the system is unfair. If they're not prepared to accept the downside of the 11+, then live in a county that only has comprehensives.
I think you're right to think of those poor children that have NONE of their choices. In DD2's class last year, 8 children out of 30 didn't get any of their choices.
(dashes out of door on school run to collect three children at three different schools!)
