I appreciate his straight forward and honest view on things, even if it isn't always the same view as mine. There is nothing wrong with having a good debate but it is a shame to have to resort to name calling.

So basically Otto lost his temper and swore (after a few other occasions of bad language).

Are we allowed to know what this other person said to get banned? (or context)

Otto come back, the only thing wrong you did (in my eyes) is use too much bad language.

jojo, how did you feel threatened by otto? To be fair, from what people post on here, I think they are total idiots and I'm sure other people think the same about me. You can't really get a good feel of someone's character just from a few posts.

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Please come back otto.

(what did he do wrong?)

Yes it is I.

I tricked you all into thinking I was a woman but I am infact actually Patrick.

I'm none of them really, I'm doing a phd because I need the qualification for the job I want in industry but also in the same area......dunno

I agree with you about the monitoring homeschooling, I can imagine there being parents out there making it worse.

I don't think what I said is that much of a minority though, there are some awful schools out there and they aren't being made less-awful quicker. That's why people keep cropping up in the news about not sending their child to the school they got into because it's rubbish etc.

I just wanted to point out, that I would prefer my children to go to school and "just in case" I already have a savings account earmarked for "children's school fees".

I think that's all I wanted to comment on.

Like I said on the other thread, I was also worried about how homeschooled children get social interaction and having since researched the area more, I have found out that parents set up big groups where both parent and child can interact.

I know for a fact that you can become a supply teacher without any formal teaching qualifications. How would you feel if your child was always being taught by these supply "teachers"?


This is actually a reality that some school children suffer with, would you let your child go to a school like this or would you do something about it?

OK so you both have your points, what about if:

Your child has certain social problems which meant they couldn't interact with other children properly (e.g was disruptive or even more major, hurt other children). This is quite a rare occurence I would say.

However:

What about the local school in your catchment area was a school full of, with no other word to describe it, chavs, who didn't want to be there and were very happy to disrupt learning for the kids that did want to learn. What if your child was bullied simply for wanting to learn. What if the school had teachers who had given up a long time ago and had the attitude, "it's there if you want it". What if the government had the attitude "lets throw are money at wars that don't have much to do with us" and couldn't afford to improve the school.

Does anyone remember this thread by a user called Zara?

http://www.postgraduateforum.com/showmessage.asp?page=1&cat=4&thread=4091&threadpage=&order=1&stype=TM&keyword=%22too+old%22&category=0

If you look at the last page, you will see what she does now.....

Just to point out, the uni is quite far from the city centre (the campus is lovely). You will be fine as long as you don't go into the city centre itself, especially not at night.

ahem, are we talking about the same city here? "Gun Capital" of the UK.

why do (did) you want to do a phd in an area which you hate?

lol piglet, thats not me!