OPINION: The best advice I’ve ever heard about schooling
Larger text size Very large text size The idea was that our three kids would just walk down the hill to the local high school. Gorgeous setting, 12 minutes walk from their bedrooms. Coming home would be a different story, all uphill, but hell, kids can meander all they like after a day at school. When my eldest was in kindergarten, that was the plan. She would lead her siblings to Glebe High. We ignored the whispers in the playground about our local school.
Parents are expected to be wise and thoughtful, be well-informed and discerning about an education system which is complex, where the best information is not really about NAPLAN or HSC results but about something less concrete. It is not possible to know where your child will be happy and maybe we also need to understand that happiness, while lovely, is not the only thing.
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