Silkysarah

Tea addict. Mummy to my gorgeous girl & her puppy! 🙏🥰 Married to my handsome fella. Trying to make better choices daily. Starting a teaching career in 2024!

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@DeputyGrocott Reeth, North Yorkshire. I discovered it 3 years ago and have been back every year. 6hr drive from home!

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@DrRebeccaTidy @nachovidal485 @FieldyJay Sounds like it might be time to look for a new school. It doesn’t sound like a good fit sadly.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@nachovidal485 @DrRebeccaTidy @FieldyJay Seems fair then tbh. Teachers shouldn’t have to pay premium holiday prices either. We have children knowing school holidays, same as teachers knowing holidays. So time out should be the same for all parties imo.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@nachovidal485 @DrRebeccaTidy @FieldyJay Out of genuine interest, how would you feel if the teacher took a holiday during term time and the children had supply teaching for that time? For clarity, I think you should be able to take children out during term time for a reasonable time.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@2StefanMoore I love seeing pictures of Ashley. We’ve never met, but I could spot a picture of Ashley a mile off. Please keep her popping up x

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@2StefanMoore ❤️

[James Denison @jrkdenison]

The idea that independent schooling creates or fosters inequality in our society is complete nonsense.

The schools that people attend reflect pre-existing inequalities. Some families can afford the fees; others can't. Some families can afford homes near the best state schools; others can't. Either way, the schooling received (independent or state) reflects existing inequality of means. It's a result of that inequality, not a cause.

As for the entrenchment issue, school fees cost money. Abolish independent schooling and your inevitable primary achievement is to make all of the former independent school families considerably richer, largely at the expense of existing state school families. Does that help your cause? Of course not.

Meanwhile, those families will still be engaged in significant levels of home schooling on top of formal education and they'll still have all the same career and social contacts. There's nothing you can do about that, but now they'll also have more money for tutors or other academic support.

Finally, if your argument had any force at all, we'd see the existing state system delivering a high level of equality already. After all, it educates about 93% of the population, so idependent education is hardly relevant to the issue. The fact that state schooling is almost ubiquitous but has manifestly failed to deliver the equality that you value over everything else, including the welfare of children and the freedom of parents to decide what is best for their own offspring, proves that your desire to destroy independent schooling will never deliver the outcome you want, so you may as well give up.

The best thing that we could do to improve standards generally and thereby drive greater equality within the education system would be to introduce school vouchers and make independent schooling available to far more people, but that's the polar opposite of your simplistic, ill-conceived plans.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@Janroweljmu I know someone who owns 2 care homes, the company they are under paid for her divorce (over £100k), school fees and she pays her in-education children a monthly salary each of £1k (for no work).

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@MartinSLewis We have travel insurance as part of our bank account cost. The benefits of paying for the banking far outweigh the costs.

[Ashleigh Pain @ashleigh_pain]

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[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@TomD12094771 @papaorg Agreed. And making up loads of lies. Favouritism seems heavily weighted towards the mother, even when the children don’t always want to be with them. The children end up hurt and lose out on a relationship. Awful.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@TomD12094771 @papaorg My brother is in the middle of this. Social services say 50:50 custody & that one child (8) is scared of his mother, but the court is allowing the mother to choose custody as she likes, changing it daily. Seems courts aren’t always fair. Debt looms.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@charliersmith1 I’m glad you stayed. You’re inspiring.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@fesshole I love a cheddar and strawberry jam sandwich!

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@CoffeewClassics Austen, as I’m currently writing an essay about Pride and Prejudice and I’m pretty sure she could help me!

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@Suffragent_ @KlassMyleene @ClassicFM @SmoothRadio @papaorg

[PAPA | People Against Parental Alienation ♻️ @papaorg]

At PAPA, our mission is:

-To counter the family law industry by offering free support and resources.

-To promote equal parenting, in the best interests of the child.

-To create a presumption of equal parental rights and responsibility after separation.

-To force legislative change that removes the barriers that aide Parental Alienation.

-To create greater deterrents for false allegations and acts of abuse.

-To have Parental Alienation be recognised as a criminal offence.

-To raise awareness for Parental Alienation and minimise the negative effects of alienation.

-To reduce the stigma around men's mental health issues and encourage men to get the help they need.

Please do support us with a like, a follow, a repost...
anything helps that may lead to increasing the probability of any of the above.

[Giles Udy @GilesUdy]

"Ending the tax breaks private schools"
Freedom of information request reveals there NO PLACES in state schools in Years 9-11 for children whose parents can't afford the increased fees.

12% of Surrey kids are in private schools, (meaning their parents pay taxes for state places they to date have not taken up). If they are taken out of private schools they are now the responsibility of Surrey Council, which has NO ROOM for them.

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@dmzhukova @JasonKander Love this!

[Silkysarah @mysarah1977]

@MartinSLewis 14 year old. £10 PW. We pay for any meals out she has with her friends (lunch in town etc). She is expected to do her school work to a high standard. That is her role at this age. She does clear the table, keep her room tidy but PM is not tied to this.