School Daze: My Search for a Decent State Secondary School

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Written in diary style, this is an incredibly useful personal journey through the confusing and frustrating maze that is finding a school for your 11 year old child if you don’t want to pay for it.  After all, we all pay our taxes and much of that goes into the education pot so for most it seems madness to pay for it even if one could afford it.  The author is an award-winning investigative journalist who through his personal experiences of finding a school that would get the results he was seeking and in his local catchment area.  Taking a sideways look at our increasingly complex education system School Daze is packed with up-to-date information on the coalition’s latest education plans.  It’s a must-read for all parents of children about to make the move to secondary school.

Click here to read online an article written by Andrew Penman about his book School Daze, published int he Daily Mirror. Click here to download an image of the article.

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About School Daze: My Search for a Decent State Secondary School

It should be simple. When your children reach the age of 11 they go to the comprehensive down the road. The one funded by those taxes that you’ve been paying all these years. But what happens if the local comp is an academic black hole where the majority of children cannot achieve the undemanding task of getting five GCSEs with a grade of C or better? What do you do if the next alternative gets great results, but it’s a faith school and you don’t go to church?

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