Amateur author, medical day job, 'insufferable' advocate for SEND and geographically underprivileged children. Blocks abusive or intolerably Stupid replies.
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Selecting children for schools by postcode is discriminatory and should be abolished for all except those who *genuinely* can't travel far.
And no this would not cause traffic chaos, the majority of people wouldn't apply for a long commute.
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It wouldn't be perfect but it would even out housing costs, prevent the rich from monopolising all the good schools, and create a more merit-based admissions system for academically selective schools.
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Barring people from educating themselves to a higher level is a tool of oppression.
See the African slave trade, apartheid, various dictatorships, recent events in Afghanistan.
I'm not saying life here is as bad as that, but be suspicious of anyone who does it.
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You can defend yourself by getting your own reading materials and studying at home. And yes that includes reading them not an AI summary.
You can get a lot of text books online for a couple of pounds and a lot of subjects eg Latin don't change much.
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Jun 12
But even if you don't want to learn the thing, at least be suspicious about why someone wants to stop you.
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I look after numerous 'high functioning' autistic kids who attend our local sink comps.
They present with severe anxiety, panic attacks and suicidal thoughts. Many are dropping out of school pre GCSE because they can't take it and are 'home schooled' until old enough for PIP.
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I went to independent school with numerous 'high functioning' autistic kids.
The number of them I know who dropped out without any GCSEs and are living on PIP is zero.
Now I am quite sure there is more to it than just type of school...
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Jun 12
But there are clear economic benefits in getting 'high functioning' SEND kids through childhood in one piece to be healthy working adults.
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Jun 10
Child A's parents inherit a million pound house in a top school area.
Child B's parents scrape together a third of their household income to pay for private school.
Child C is born in a poor area to poor parents and attends a sink school.
A and C are not in the same bracket.
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B and C are not in the same bracket either.
B and A might be, or might not be.
But any cohort that includes A and C in one group is a completely useless measure of inequality.
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Jun 9
I have no objection to anyone being proud of their school. That's a healthy emotion.
What is not healthy is people in the top 10% income bracket claiming to have the disadvantages of the bottom 10%. That's deceptive to the point of being ludicrous.
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93% of people are not poor.
I work with people in the bottom 1%. They go to schools that 92% of the country can move house to get away from.
The council doesn't just let them move somewhere better.
Jun 8
Have you seen the text in the right corner ‘flavours of the working class’.
I’m absolutely sick of the propaganda that 93% of families in the Country are poor / working class just because they use state schools.
It’s incorrect, misleading and divisive.
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Child A attends a school with a pool. This costs her parents £1500 a month (take your pick between school fees or higher housing costs) and she swims once a week.
Child B has a gym membership for £25 a month and swims three times a week plus competitions.
Child C has neither.
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What doesn't get your kid ahead is whining on the internet that they lost because some other kids go to private school.
Like you don't get stronger by just walking in a building that somewhere has a pool. You still have to WORK at it.
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Your kid's school is not the secret sauce.
You and your kid are the secret sauce.
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