School Places - why not just go to your local school?

[rogets]

They may learn some grammar and spelling. Or at least how to use a spellchecker.

 

 

Its the autotext on my phone

 

Hence the full stops etc..in wrong places.

[Lex Luthor]

So if a brighter child went to.Dore Primary or Darnell.primary they would an equal education?

 

Does Darnall Primary exist?

[hyper]

If a student is bright, works hard and has support from home, they will do well, no matter what school they are at.

true, but maybe not as well as if they were at a "better" school

 

Parents get fixated on getting their child in to a 'good school' but don't realise that often the 'good schools' offer no better opportunities .....

A better school often follows the demographic of the catchment. So a predominantly middle class, professional catchment means that most students are engaged in their education. If a child's peers are engaged, then it is easier for that child to engage. And all this leads to better exam results and the title of "better" school

A successful ex-colleague who attended an inner city comp used to tell me that any attempt to succeed at school was always a battle against the rest of the cohort who saw him as a "swat" and the potential to bully was always there. It often takes a big man (both physically and metaphorically) to rise above and fulfil your potential.

 

Also the better schools often attract the better teachers, who feel able to get more out of their jobs

[Lex Luthor]

A successful ex-colleague who attended an inner city comp used to tell me that any attempt to succeed at school was always a battle against the rest of the cohort who saw him as a "swat" and the potential to bully was always there. It often takes a big man (both physically and metaphorically) to rise above and fulfil your potential.

 

I think the experience of your colleague is typical for 20 years ago, but I think times have changed for the better. In comprehensives these days the less academic tend to lump themselves together just as the 'swats' do. 'Geek' is now cool.

 

I recently attended an open evening at a school that has a very varied catchment and the turnout, interest and wish for their child to succeed amongst parents there would match any school at the top of the league tables.

 

Also bullying is by no means restricted to schools with more varied socio-economic catchments. The recent thread about one of Sheffield's reputedly 'better' schools on here is testament to that, as are the testimonies of hundreds of former public school pupils.

 

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Also the better schools often attract the better teachers, who feel able to get more out of their jobs

 

I think schools with more middle class catchments tended to attract teachers who were less resilient but not necessary 'better teachers' than their counterparts working in schools with more varied catchment areas. These days, as children are bussed in from all over the place, even that's no longer true and you have to be a pretty tough cookie no matter where you teach.

 

For me, getting more out of my job would be to get a kid from a poor socio-economic background an A*, as opposed to a kid who had been getting private lessons from the age of 5. So, personally, I have to disagree.

Edited April 19, 2016 by Lex Luthor

[ANGELFIRE1]

I remember a female member of NEW Liebour spending her whole career telling any one who would listen that the local sec mod was a good place to get a decent education. Quite odd then that she chose to send her offspring to private school. Don't you just love these Champagne socialists.

 

Angel1.