On 08/10/2019 11:51, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:55:53
on Mon, 7 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:47:38
on Fri, 4 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
I repeat, it's something that lots of people have done, and lots of
people do do, so is clearly not completely unreasonable.
First you have to finds a school with places, and the good ones are
likely to be full. Even if you are turning up for the first year of
Secondary because the allocations will have been done 9mths earlier.

The children will lose their friends, places on sports teams, have a
new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public exams
this
can be very seriously disrupting.

And yet people do it. No matter how many reasons you can think of for
not doing it, people do it anyway, thus proving that for at least some
families it's a sensible thing to do.

The most common reason for moving (and children being forced to go to
a different school, or have a very long commute) is divorce.

I expect the second most common reason is some financial disaster

which "losing your job and having to get a new one, some miles away"
falls into

When I was 17 my father was pretty much compelled to move from London to
Solihull, just outside Birmingham. It was a case of "move or find
another job" and as at the time work wasn't exactly easy to find, he
moved. My mother, brother and I had little choice but to move with him.


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