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| |  Thursday, 1 May, 2003, 05:13 GMT 06:13 UKEthics and League Tables  League tables widen the gap, says Mr Perry If you've been watching this week's special series of reports on schools, you're probably aware of the intense competition to get your child into "the best" local school.
Some parents are ruthless in their pursuit of a place in a school at the top of the league tables and will accept nothing else. But does this actually make the schools lower down the league tables doomed to fail? He e-mailed us to say he's sending his son to an unpopular local school because he feels he has a duty to the community to help make it work. And, we talked to the editor of the Good Schools Guide, Ralph Lucas We also asked for your views. Simon Perry lives in Taunton and contacted Breakfast about his son's primary school place.
He's decided to send him to a school which doesn't have a good reputation among local parents because he thinks it's important to give the school a chance. He says he doesn't give much credence to league tables: the obsession with sending children to the top-performing schools only widens the gap. He says "What is wrong with people in this country - who think so little of their children that they think school has all the answers? "Children learn far more from their own parents than their parents usually realise. And if their parents are selfish enough to think can leap-frog over other families to get their kids into the 'best' school, their children will grow up to be equally selfish." E-mail us at[email protected] | |
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If parents are selfish enough to think can leap-frog over other families to get their kids into the 'best' school, their children will grow up to be equally selfish.
