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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Nick on July 10, 2007, 12:35:28 PM
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For complex reasons we are investigating sending The Boy to a private school. We happen to have a large one next door to us and I went there earlier.
Christ on a bike. The difference. Comfy sofas and real coffee. Fab facilities. Classes of 8-11 kids rather than the 30 + normal in state system.
Fabulous building (stained glass windows in the canteen!)
Delightful staff
Wonderful library.
Pistol shooting range scared2:
Specialist teachers for everything.
Every child streamed FOR EACH SUBJECT!!
Tennis courts
Swimming pool
It is a different world and is an object lesson in the social class divide. Even the Boy picked up on the atmosphere and shook hands with everyone with a sort of slight bow. He has declared it to be "posh" and desperately want to go there.
I am still stunned.
?6000 a year cry: cry: I shall be packing in the ciggies (wrote fags but though better of it!)
And (opportunity for DS) they will help out by offering The Boy an "Organ Scholarship" (wait for it) since he really does play the organ........
We are meant to be looking at other State schools this week, but I an't gonna bovver.
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I wouldn't. If you can afford it then I wouldn't even think about sending him to state. As soon as I pop a sprog out Mr Wench will be looking at jobs in private schools so that they can go for free.
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As soon as I pop a sprog
Worrying thought.
I have worked in one way or t'other in State Education for years but this was a revelation! Mrs Nick is going there on Thursday and I have told her that once she sees it she will be bowled over too. Very unfair though.
And afford it? Will be a struggle but the Organ Scholarship will help (come on DS!)
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Pistol shooting range scared2:
Errr are you sure that the boy and firearms is a good mix? scared:
Barman, can you order some bullet proof furniture please
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They wear ear muffs, so that should be OK noooo:
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And afford it? Will be a struggle but the Organ Scholarship will help (come on DS!)
They probably meant the Captain mOrgan Scholarship for promising pirates.
If you can afford it, and ?6000 sounds very reasonable, I would not hesitate in your position.
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No question - just do it!
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No contest.
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?6000 sounds very reasonable
I just checked my old school.
Fees are now ?8275 redface: Per term
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Borstal then?
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Approved
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What were you in for?
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What were you in for?
Life
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Oh, for being alive. I see! eyes:
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Our one and only sprog went to a very small local junior school for around 2 years - initially very good and then we had a bleeding heart (in her mind not her body) headmistress arrive and wow what a change for the worst! Suddenly we were told we had to STOP cussing: helping her with her reading and writing outside of school hours (she wanted to I assure you as I'm not one of those flash card from baby in the womb ambitious type of mums I can assure you) AND Banghead because she was a tad bright (must take after Barman eh ::)) she wouldn't be allowed to have additional work given at school to strech her BUT he expected to WAIT for everyone else to catch up.........................!!!!!
Not a tough decision for us to look to change schools then and like you we investigated the fee paying options - found a nice one (based on what the kids appeared to be like on our viewing mostly - happy, polite etc etc) in Windsor and prepared ourselves for the next few years of being partially brasick cry:
She stayed there until 11 and then took her common entrance exam because we'd been doing our research meantime and found to be a marvellous non fee paying Catholic school (sorry the religion bit always creeps in somewhere doesn't it) and once we'd convinced the mafia (sorry Nun's) that despite not being 'C' ourselves we didnt sacrifice chickens or burn black candles EVERY night she was accepted.
Stayed there until 18 and left us for Univille.............
You really do need to do your research and shop around and then go with your gut feel on what's best for your childand you - Not saying that ALL fee paying schools are good (I do know some bad ones) nor that all state schools are bad either - but times have changed no doubt about that and education service are not what they were.
Mind you after all that have to say I failed my 11+ in the old system and then ended up going to a crap(ish) state school myself - oh those were the salad days weren't ??????
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What were you in for?
Probably for badly executed puns or looking down ladies tops.
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I think his puns are OK
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Our one and only sprog went to a very small local junior school for around 2 years - initially very good and then we had a bleeding heart (in her mind not her body) headmistress arrive and wow what a change for the worst! Suddenly we were told we had to STOP cussing: helping her with her reading and writing outside of school hours (she wanted to I assure you as I'm not one of those flash card from baby in the womb ambitious type of mums I can assure you) AND Banghead because she was a tad bright (must take after Barman eh ::)) she wouldn't be allowed to have additional work given at school to strech her BUT he expected to WAIT for everyone else to catch up.........................!!!!!
Not a tough decision for us to look to change schools then and like you we investigated the fee paying options - found a nice one (based on what the kids appeared to be like on our viewing mostly - happy, polite etc etc) in Windsor and prepared ourselves for the next few years of being partially brasick cry:
She stayed there until 11 and then took her common entrance exam because we'd been doing our research meantime and found to be a marvellous non fee paying Catholic school (sorry the religion bit always creeps in somewhere doesn't it) and once we'd convinced the mafia (sorry Nun's) that despite not being 'C' ourselves we didnt sacrifice chickens or burn black candles EVERY night she was accepted.
Stayed there until 18 and left us for Univille.............
You really do need to do your research and shop around and then go with your gut feel on what's best for your childand you - Not saying that ALL fee paying schools are good (I do know some bad ones) nor that all state schools are bad either - but times have changed no doubt about that and education service are not what they were.
Mind you after all that have to say I failed my 11+ in the old system and then ended up going to a crap(ish) state school myself - oh those were the salad days weren't ??????
Don't talk to me about nuns or Catholic schools Banghead Banghead
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I think his puns are OK
Small things please small minds. point:
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I think his puns are OK
Small things please small minds. point:
Are we still talking about DS's puns or his penchant for peering at your bust?
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Both are wrong. evil:
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Our one and only sprog went to a very small local junior school for around 2 years - initially very good and then we had a bleeding heart (in her mind not her body) headmistress arrive and wow what a change for the worst! Suddenly we were told we had to STOP cussing: helping her with her reading and writing outside of school hours (she wanted to I assure you as I'm not one of those flash card from baby in the womb ambitious type of mums I can assure you) AND Banghead because she was a tad bright (must take after Barman eh ::)) she wouldn't be allowed to have additional work given at school to strech her BUT he expected to WAIT for everyone else to catch up.........................!!!!!
Not a tough decision for us to look to change schools then and like you we investigated the fee paying options - found a nice one (based on what the kids appeared to be like on our viewing mostly - happy, polite etc etc) in Windsor and prepared ourselves for the next few years of being partially brasick cry:
She stayed there until 11 and then took her common entrance exam because we'd been doing our research meantime and found to be a marvellous non fee paying Catholic school (sorry the religion bit always creeps in somewhere doesn't it) and once we'd convinced the mafia (sorry Nun's) that despite not being 'C' ourselves we didnt sacrifice chickens or burn black candles EVERY night she was accepted.
Stayed there until 18 and left us for Univille.............
You really do need to do your research and shop around and then go with your gut feel on what's best for your childand you - Not saying that ALL fee paying schools are good (I do know some bad ones) nor that all state schools are bad either - but times have changed no doubt about that and education service are not what they were.
Mind you after all that have to say I failed my 11+ in the old system and then ended up going to a crap(ish) state school myself - oh those were the salad days weren't ??????
Yeah ~ Know wot yer mean ~ I couldn't stand the dinners either! sick2:
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Both are wrong. evil:
Oh I agree 100% Very Very Wrong ~ pleasurable ~ BUT very wrong
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Both are wrong. evil:
Oh I agree 100% Very Very Wrong ~ pleasurable ~ BUT very wrong
No not pleasurable! cussing:
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Don't talk to me about nuns or Catholic schools Banghead Banghead
You don't like penguins - why? Very funny to watch at the zoo! Good at catching fish and swimming.
Plus the sound of music is a classic !!! In fact, oh no, I feel a burst of song coming on - trill commecing ''The hills are alive, blah blah blah blah blah blah''
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One hestitates to be pedantic ~ particularly with the Landlady but ..... it is BORACIC (as in antiseptic) not Brasick.
Rhyming slang Boracic Lint = Skint
Sorry sometimes I just can't help it. redface:
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One hestitates to be pedantic ~ particularly with the Landlady but ..... it is BORACIC (as in antiseptic) not Brasick.
Rhyming slang Boracic Lint = Skint
Sorry sometimes I just can't help it. redface:
Sorry nope you wrong - I was correct.
We was soooooooooo poor after paying the school fee's we only had a tin of Brasso to live on and then that made us sick - so we were Brasick lol:
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rubschin: My considered response is bs:
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rubschin: My considered response is bs:
Very wise... noooo:
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8)
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Both are wrong. evil:
Are they different sizes then?
I wouldn't know as I never looked. angel1
Anyhoo, what's all this 'have a go at Darwin day' from you young Wench?
I don't remember ogling or mocking you today (apart from your menopausal choice of colour in kitchen equipment).
If I were at all a sensitive soul, I could be very hurt. sad32:
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Sorry. redface: Many apologies. Was feeling like a delicate little flower who had been trampled on.
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Both are wrong. evil:
Anyhoo, what's all this 'have a go at Darwin day' from you young Wench?
Painters prolly ? this could be the first one for the powder room? ::)
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Both are wrong. evil:
Anyhoo, what's all this 'have a go at Darwin day' from you young Wench?
Painters prolly ? this could be the first one for the powder room? ::)
sex014
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What is this thread about? evil:
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shrugs:
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Both are wrong. evil:
Anyhoo, what's all this 'have a go at Darwin day' from you young Wench?
Painters prolly ? this could be the first one for the powder room? ::)
sex014
I?ll get the nice nurses onto you! cussing:
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What is this thread about? evil:
What are any of them about? whistle:
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Don't talk to me about nuns or Catholic schools Banghead Banghead
You don't like penguins - why? Very funny to watch at the zoo! Good at catching fish and swimming.
Plus the sound of music is a classic !!! In fact, oh no, I feel a burst of song coming on - trill commecing ''The hills are alive, blah blah blah blah blah blah''
thatsit: Thank you VERY much, way back in the mists of time an ex of mine had a past in a production of that musical somehow managing to get a singing part despite sounding like a distressed hyena. I've now got her catawauling stuck in my head again :lalalala
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Don't talk to me about nuns or Catholic schools Banghead Banghead
You don't like penguins - why? Very funny to watch at the zoo! Good at catching fish and swimming.
Plus the sound of music is a classic !!! In fact, oh no, I feel a burst of song coming on - trill commecing ''The hills are alive, blah blah blah blah blah blah''
thatsit: Thank you VERY much, way back in the mists of time an ex of mine had a past in a production of that musical somehow managing to get a singing part despite sounding like a distressed hyena. I've now got her catawauling stuck in my head again :lalalala
So so soooooooooooo very pleased to be of help ;D
All together now
''Doe a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun (not that your're getting any in England - tee hee), Me a name I call myself (when I'm so pissed I've forgotten my real one) Far a long long way to run (oh how you wish you could, how you wish you could), Sew a needle pulling thread (not that these threads are in any way needle pulling, they couldn't hold anything together me thinks, talk about easily distracted), La :lalalala , Tea the jolly British tonic (for those not up to Bishops Finger) that will bring us back to Doe etc etc etc etc etc etc
No okay, hold yourself's back my friends I am being deafened by your tumultuous appreciation happ096
I thank you, I thank you razz:
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Don't talk to me about nuns or Catholic schools Banghead Banghead
You don't like penguins - why? Very funny to watch at the zoo! Good at catching fish and swimming.
Plus the sound of music is a classic !!! In fact, oh no, I feel a burst of song coming on - trill commecing ''The hills are alive, blah blah blah blah blah blah''
thatsit: Thank you VERY much, way back in the mists of time an ex of mine had a past in a production of that musical somehow managing to get a singing part despite sounding like a distressed hyena. I've now got her catawauling stuck in my head again :lalalala
So so soooooooooooo very pleased to be of help ;D
All together now
''Doe a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun (not that your're getting any in England - tee hee), Me a name I call myself (when I'm so pissed I've forgotten my real one) Far a long long way to run (oh how you wish you could, how you wish you could), Sew a needle pulling thread (not that these threads are in any way needle pulling, they couldn't hold anything together me thinks, talk about easily distracted), La :lalalala , Tea the jolly British tonic (for those not up to Bishops Finger) that will bring us back to Doe etc etc etc etc etc etc
No okay, hold yourself's back my friends I am being deafened by your tumultuous appreciation happ096
I thank you, I thank you razz:
YAY!!! Hooray!!! Clap Clap Clap!!![/size]
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No decent Grammar Schools up there?
http://www.suttongrammar.sutton.sch.uk/
The scary thing is the Headmaster used to teach me A-Level maths, when he was fresh faced out of training. The poor bloke was terrorised at first. And he drove an Austin 1100, whereas I has a 1300 eyes:
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thatsit: Thank you VERY much, way back in the mists of time an ex of mine had a past in a production of that musical somehow managing to get a singing part despite sounding like a distressed hyena. I've now got her catawauling stuck in my head again :lalalala
So so soooooooooooo very pleased to be of help ;D
All together now
''Doe a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun (not that your're getting any in England - tee hee), Me a name I call myself (when I'm so pissed I've forgotten my real one) Far a long long way to run (oh how you wish you could, how you wish you could), Sew a needle pulling thread (not that these threads are in any way needle pulling, they couldn't hold anything together me thinks, talk about easily distracted), La :lalalala , Tea the jolly British tonic (for those not up to Bishops Finger) that will bring us back to Doe etc etc etc etc etc etc
No okay, hold yourself's back my friends I am being deafened by your tumultuous appreciation happ096
I thank you, I thank you razz:
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YAY!!! Hooray!!! Clap Clap Clap!!![/size]
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Dear I& S - hereby formally invite you to a glass of champagne on the patio at TLHOTP when you make it over to our side of the waters ;D ;D ;D ;D
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thatsit: Thank you VERY much, way back in the mists of time an ex of mine had a past in a production of that musical somehow managing to get a singing part despite sounding like a distressed hyena. I've now got her catawauling stuck in my head again :lalalala
So so soooooooooooo very pleased to be of help ;D
All together now
''Doe a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun (not that your're getting any in England - tee hee), Me a name I call myself (when I'm so pissed I've forgotten my real one) Far a long long way to run (oh how you wish you could, how you wish you could), Sew a needle pulling thread (not that these threads are in any way needle pulling, they couldn't hold anything together me thinks, talk about easily distracted), La :lalalala , Tea the jolly British tonic (for those not up to Bishops Finger) that will bring us back to Doe etc etc etc etc etc etc
No okay, hold yourself's back my friends I am being deafened by your tumultuous appreciation happ096
I thank you, I thank you razz:
YAY!!! Hooray!!! Clap Clap Clap!!![/size]
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Dear I& S - hereby formally invite you to a glass of champagne on the patio at TLHOTP when you make it over to our side of the waters ;D ;D ;D ;D
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You're on - get it on ice!!! ;D
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You're on - get it on ice!!! ;D
And a lesson in the quote function for both of you? ::)
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way back in the mists of time an ex of mine had a past. . .
Me too.
Funny how they never mention bunny-boiling during the first flush of romance. scared2: