you might want to read the post...
because I stated that my parents sent me to public school because they wanted me to be able to read by 18. I know many people who went to comprehensive schools who are literate. I know a fair few who aren't as well.

Given that the state system is geared to the lowest common denominator and all support systems are for those with sub-normal rather than super-normal abilities, or are for containing criminal behaviour, I personally wouldn't send any child with an IQ over 120 to a state school, because they will be bored witless and will, in all likelihood, start to act out because of it.

The fact is that there is *no* provision for exceptional students at all, as there is no easy living to be had from it, or social workers to employ - your thieving/schizo/violent illiterate with an IQ of 80 provides a nice excuse for lowering the goals set to something easier and will keep four or five social workers in jobs for a decade or so.

I'm not making this up - this is precisely what a respected headmistress of some 30 years experience told my parents when I was a pupil at the school, before she advised them to move me to a public school.

I never said parents who didn't send their kids to public school didn't work, either - I said that there were scumbag parents who laughed at their kids bunking off as they were milking the state for benefits and felt it ok for their kids to do so, as well. These parents lived in council houses and their kids were supposed to attend state schools, but it doesn't then mean all council tenants are scumbags and all those at state school will end up on benefits. You might want to look at your logic skills - maybe drawing a Venn diagram might help you sort out the issues there...?
(Chad, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 11:21, Reply)