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<blockquote data-quote="pavlosn" data-source="post: 791375" data-attributes="member: 22572"><p>Mike</p><p></p><p>I suspect that part of my reaction is that, I feel an emotional bond to the particular school as it was the place where I studied and where my dad studied before me.</p><p></p><p>So since the place is special to me, part of me expects that I should be special to it. But how could I be. None of my old teachers are still there, it was all too long ago for that. So the bond is only one way and like any lover who finds that his feelings are not reciprocated I react with disappointment.</p><p></p><p>This is at one level but I hope that I am intelligent enough to recognize this and not let it cloud my judgement.</p><p></p><p>At another level, I am a parent who has to use his best judgement to select between schools that seem to have very different cultures and approaches to select what suits his child's talents and character. I am not finding this an easy task.</p><p></p><p>But the bottom line is that my son has expressed a clear preference for today's school.So if he does get in, and he continues to want to go there after he gets a chance to see the school at an open day on the 12th, this is the school he will end up in.</p><p>He has worked hard for this, do if successful, he deserves the right to make his own choice.</p><p></p><p>P.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pavlosn, post: 791375, member: 22572"] Mike I suspect that part of my reaction is that, I feel an emotional bond to the particular school as it was the place where I studied and where my dad studied before me. So since the place is special to me, part of me expects that I should be special to it. But how could I be. None of my old teachers are still there, it was all too long ago for that. So the bond is only one way and like any lover who finds that his feelings are not reciprocated I react with disappointment. This is at one level but I hope that I am intelligent enough to recognize this and not let it cloud my judgement. At another level, I am a parent who has to use his best judgement to select between schools that seem to have very different cultures and approaches to select what suits his child's talents and character. I am not finding this an easy task. But the bottom line is that my son has expressed a clear preference for today's school.So if he does get in, and he continues to want to go there after he gets a chance to see the school at an open day on the 12th, this is the school he will end up in. He has worked hard for this, do if successful, he deserves the right to make his own choice. P. [/QUOTE]
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