On 11/10/2019 17:39, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 17:07:34 on Fri, 11 Oct
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In message , at
11:55:53Â* onÂ* Mon, 7 Oct 2019, David Cantrell
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
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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 aÂ* new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different
syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public
examsÂ* 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 aÂ* 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

It's the *having* to move which is the disaster. Sometimes it's
possibleÂ* to get a job locally, or rely on a joint breadwinner, or
have a longerÂ* daily commute, or even a weekly commute.

Oh stop moving the goalposts

I'm simply pointing out that that circumstances under discussion are
really quite rare. And have to be pretty dire to uproot the family from
their schools, friends, etc.

You don't know anybody in the services then, or even some civil service
jobs. You get posted from one end of the country to another or abroad,
commuting is out of the question. I moved school several times, three
junior schools and two secondaries, in three different countries.

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Graeme Wall
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