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Could i please ask ED parents not to describe schools which are not full of 'white middle-class children' as 'in special measures'?


I overhead such in the hairdressers yesterday and it had me seething. The school she claimed was failing is Ofsted rated good. As a local teacher whose children have attended one of the less adored ED primaries, I think people should be a bit more sensitive to the teachers, children and school communities which they are dissing.


If you choose to reject a school place on the basis of 'no or few birds of a feather' then say so. To claim the school is rubbish is insulting and reflects poorly on you too.

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Flocker, this post will not go down well but for what it is worth, I agree with you. We are blessed with a varity of strong schools in Southwark and I too get dismayed at the "oh I am not so sure about that school" talk I so often overheard at open days last year. There are very few truly diverse and multicultural schools left in our area of London and it pains me. I had to search long and hard to find one such school for my child.


I hear you!

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