Can someone help with the issue of "character" please?

• I have just stumbled upon this forum. There are a lot of emotional comments above, but also some sensible and helpful points. It seems clear that BSB is a smaller and more recently-established school. Both schools should therefore suffer from the obvious pros and cons that one finds when comparing larger and longer-established entities with smaller (and possibly keener) upstarts. My wife and I hope to have the opportunity to go and see both schools before we make up our minds for our child's entry next year.
  
  Could anyone kindly help us with the issue of "character" please. In England, there is a distinct lack of parenting and control at home over children, which contributes greatly to bad behaviour. Adults have also become impatient over the years, and angry, as individuals (this includes teachers). Violence on British streets by adults and children alike is disgraceful. I'm now wondering what kind of background the children that go to St. Chris and BSB (and the teachers at those schools) come from. My wife and I naturally wish to admit our child in a school where the teachers and children both come from good backgrounds, and not bad (as is more commonly found nowadays in Britain). If anyone on this forum can provide some character comparisons in this context, those will be gratefully received. I'm sorry for using such generic and relative terms such as "good" and "bad", but I hope that people will interpret the former to include values such as tolerance, fairness, hard work and endeavour, patience and good humour (something that Britain at least used to be famed for). Thank you!

  Immigrant Brit Parent 23 Jul 2008, 02:54 - Report

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