Re: Student Attitudes to School - does it tell you anything about a school.
It wouldn't change my mind as I want to maximize the time children are not in school - so the nearest walkable school is a massive plus, it is also a bilingual school (is a state school) which I think is a massive plus and we wouldn't get elsewhere.
The questions that they are answering are not really about 'hating' school - and looking at the way the study is designed I don't think you can totally discount the results.
Is more that this just adds to the gut feeling that I have about the school being very good academically (although it is rated lower than similar schools in subjects other than English and Maths) which is less important to me than how the kids feel about school and learning. Hopefully the open evening on Tuesday might change that, conversations with the few other parents I have had do tend to be very results focused, partly due to the demographic of the area I think.
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