and i really got the feeling that they didn't like me *at all*. I talked to the staff more than the person showing me around liked, for a start
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Well, on one level it really shouldn't matter. If it's the best place for your child. But if you are right, and they really didn't like you, then the chances are that they won't like your child, either. Don't judge it all on the person showing you around, though, there must be more to it than that.
If you're paying the fees, they should be trying to attract your business (unless they are completely full). It seems strange that they should do anything that would put you off ...
There must be two dozen staff at the school, minimum. How many didn't you get on with?
I really didn't take to the deputy head who showed us around Kathy's school. I'd always thought running a school would be way beyond me, but she was such a ditz that I just wanted to elbow her out of the way and do it properly. She left in Kathy's first term.
I don't like Kathy's form teacher all that much, this year, but we've been spectacularly lucky with the last two. You're not going to like all the teachers.
I felt that the staff were, to be honest, slightly cowed by the Registrar, who was the person showing me around. I was also uncomfortable because 'the help' were about - cleaners, mostly - and I acknowledged them but the Registrar didn't; she ignored them completely. The Y2 teacher was also the Head of Pre-prep, and she was responsible for rethinking the school's approach to handwriting and is dead keen on nearly-continuous-cursive (sigh) and brooked no interested questions on the subject.
There was an obviously lonely and shy boy sitting at a table in the play area; I spoke to him, the Registrar didn't. He was obviously, obviously, bloody miserable, and yet had an intelligent, kindly, even humorous face: no reason why he couldn't have been integrated, but there he was, sitting around in the cold watching some girls practice a play, but not part of anything. Me no leica.
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If you're paying the fees, they should be trying to attract your business (unless they are completely full). It seems strange that they should do anything that would put you off ...
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I really didn't take to the deputy head who showed us around Kathy's school. I'd always thought running a school would be way beyond me, but she was such a ditz that I just wanted to elbow her out of the way and do it properly. She left in Kathy's first term.
I don't like Kathy's form teacher all that much, this year, but we've been spectacularly lucky with the last two. You're not going to like all the teachers.
Do you know people who know the school?
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There was an obviously lonely and shy boy sitting at a table in the play area; I spoke to him, the Registrar didn't. He was obviously, obviously, bloody miserable, and yet had an intelligent, kindly, even humorous face: no reason why he couldn't have been integrated, but there he was, sitting around in the cold watching some girls practice a play, but not part of anything. Me no leica.
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