You are in no control of where you went to school

[Mick Mac]

Alan Johnson made this point on this week tonight. I'd not really thought of it like that before.

[womanofdulwich]

I would have agreed with you on this but some of the threads on this forum say - I let my child choose which school they went to - so for example if your child is lucky enough to get into alleyns and also charter and you offer them a choice and they choose alleyns, does that abdicate you as a parent and the responsablity lies with your child?

Many of us we just went to the local school like all our friends. Money makes it more complicated doesn't it?

[Mick Mac]

The point was made in response to the outgoing chief whip being from Rugby and the incoming one being from Eton, and how the PM was getting on in his quest for privilege for all. Alan Johnston defended the PM surprisingly.

Society sometimes makes assumptions on people based upon their school background, which was in most people's case, decided for them, by their parents.

I agree some children would be given the choice but at age 10 I'm not sure I would give my child such a big decision.

[????]

Content of his soul stuff Mick, content of his soul

[Saffron]

At age 10, I hated my school, and I wish my parents had given me a choice. A teach there marked my paper wrong because I stated that the Nile River flows north. She said it was wrong because rivers flow down not up, hence the Nile according to her flows south. (I heard she's a headteacher/prinicipal now.)

[Brendan]

Posted from East Dulwich, a suburb in West London.