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Re: Chivalry Road Playground / Bolingbroke Academy

yep, those kids are a menace. also I question the quality of the education the supposedly fabulous ARK schools are providing when this is the quality of their rhetoric and argumentation: Kid A: "so why's your son, like, allowed to ride his scooter? what if he hits me, hey?" Me: "he's ...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Chivalry Road Playground / Bolingbroke Academy
Replies: 36
by Cals_mum_silly
Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:09 pm

Chivalry Road Playground / Bolingbroke Academy

okay, chapter seven. otherwise known as, 11 months to go on the lease. i apologize for posting only bad news. but this is a serious issue that concerns everyone invested in the well-being of their children. it isn't all party hats and cupcakes, parenthood. enclosed, is a letter just sent to the Acad...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Chivalry Road Playground / Bolingbroke Academy
Replies: 36
by Cals_mum_silly
Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:36 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

And FWIW I don't see anything wrong with limiting admissions to local state schools to British citizens, or at least E.U. citizens. why? because expats almost always benefit from a schools allowance in a relocation package. it's a standard part of compensation when you're sent abroad, if you're Amer...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Thu May 01, 2014 12:11 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

there’s been so much drama on this thread it’s drowned out all the facts. let’s restore them to the argument, because they speak for themselves: it is a fact that the sibling rule reduces the number of places for non-siblings year on year, and so the catchment zone shrinks. it is a fact that if fami...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Thu May 01, 2014 11:44 am

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

we came to this neighborhood so thrilled and delighted to have a place to put down roots. our lease ends in one year and there is absolutely no way on earth i would be willing to stay.
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:13 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

put it this way: someone hits your son from behind, comes barreling past, pushes him bodily into a piece of playground equipment face first -- brutally -- then steps on his body in order to continue on his progress. your son is two years old, desperate, hurt, and sobbing. the other child is at least...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:57 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

let me be perfectly frank: what if this kid hits someone when he's a bit older... and that kid isn't smaller and more vulnerable, like my son was when this encounter took place. say, he (or she) is older and he or she's inclined -- as kids often are -- to hit *back* -- how has this father helped his...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:37 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

...and finally let me state --- again, as I have stated previously --- I have never screamed at *anyone's* kid. never. not in 37 years. not once. this kid was gone too fast for me to say a word to him. i addressed myself to his dad. and judging by his reaction his son is not going to learn to deal w...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:25 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

this issue cuts two ways. some friends of ours rented BTC in 2007. They sent their kids to Belleville because they qualified. they stayed till 2013. their landlord raised the rent regularly, and eventually they moved just across the common to the lavender hill side. they still attend the school, whi...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:17 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

as to the policy of training people for jobs -- seems to work in Germany, my husband's native country, apparently the only country creating jobs in the E.U. without importing millions of "foreigners." though I did read in last week's Economist that Nigel Farage's wife is German too. :-D
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:45 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

i know someone equally deluded will use the foregoing as evidence that I favor some kind of social Darwinism including a schools program that excludes kids with learning disabilities so let's revisit the issue for the umpteenth time - a child hurt my son on the playground. this child was much older ...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:42 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

Abbeville mummy, please, as we were coached to speak to opposing sides on my high school debate team, "prove", also, "demonstrate," "specify," "highlight" ...name calling is not appropriate or constructive. what is the point of posting if you have no thoughts ...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:37 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

how about a streaming system? why can't the state run a schools policy which offers an accelerated program for kids that test well and perform at a higher level? yes, i know, people hate it. but who benefits from depriving kids of the education that they might obtain if we were willing to dispense w...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:29 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

just a few ideas -- since we all pay taxes that collectively fund the national school system, if a parent wants to use a state school, that should not require a car ride of 45 minutes. if there is a school in walking distance, in theory, you should be able to attend the school that is closest to you...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:14 pm

Re: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?

FWIW I qualify as a renter and an immigrant, albeit a very fortunate immigrant, tranferred for work not political asylum and we didn't want to buy so we're renting and we happen to be in the catchment zone for Honeywell and possibly Belleville also but... I do know people in my demographic (expats, ...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Belleville/Honeywell first offer distance?
Replies: 188
by Cals_mum_silly
Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:43 pm