The strictest state school in Britain

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....e-school-Britain.html

Should all our state schools be modelled on this one?

[friedgreentomato]

No

[DTCwordfan]

that was a photo from the other side of the school, AOG.....

[Gromit]

Better wait to see if the regime at this school consistently delivers good exam results. As this school isn't even a year old yet, it would be foolish to base all schools on it without any evidence that the regime worked.

[sp1814]

I wish I'd done Latin at school, because it gives you a 'leg up' when you go on to learn modern languages such as Spanish, French and Italian. Once you understand the grammatical building blocks (via Latin), you're practically on the home straight.

Whether all schools should follow this model - too early to say...but all schools need to wrestle power away from children and back into the hands of head teachers and governors.

There are too many newspaper stories of parents taking kids out of school for weddings, berating headmasters for sending home their precious Kimberley because she's dyed her hair red (to emulate Rihanna), or enraged fathers criticising schools for not letting dear Shayne to come into school with his ears pierced.

No school will successfully instill discipline in their pupils if the pupils' parents have suspect parenting skills themselves.

[knowabit]

That school is very near me.. in fact my daughter is set to start secondary school next September. The West London Fee school would have been one of the options I chose to apply for, but I do not like the fact that they have to stay till 5pm everyday and do an after school club. I think that should be a choice... maybe make one day a week that they have to stay.

[sp1814]

knowabit

I know quite a few parents of teenagers who would give their back teeth for their young 'uns to be kept on at school until 5pm and then attend an after school club...;-)

[DTCwordfan]

If they offer excellence, knowabit, go for it....it's a spur to giving the best for your wee'un.

[jno]

absolutely, sp1814. A friend of mine sent her son to a school where they stayed until 5 and did their homework there (well, obviously it wasn't "homework"). Brilliant idea; and he's grown up a good, hardworking guy. When I think of having to stand over jno jnr with a cattle prod to get him to do his sums... that's a definite plus in my book.

[LeMarchand]

I work in a number of schools and this place sounds great!

However, my experience of schools setting up away from the constraints of the LEA suggests that many such ventures will be bled dry by greedy head teachers/managers feathering their own nests whilst cutting hours for all but their favourites.