Musing over the list of exhibitors at next week's Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show at Wadebridge I notice there are nine schools touting for business. Seven of them are private schools, one is a state boarding school from Somerset where parents pay for the accommodation, and there's Bodmin College, now an academy. I wonder what Wadebridge School thinks of that?
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Comment number 1.
At 09:55 3rd Jun 2011, MarkGrld wrote:Wadebridge are probably biding their time as they intend to become an academy too.
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Comment number 2.
At 13:50 3rd Jun 2011, Mrs Treacher wrote:Bodmin spend a lot of money on their sixth form each year to try and attract new people (also a 3 day jolly for staff).
Fact is though- it's nothing on Truro College or Cornwall College. The Management thinks it's the pinnacle of epic, but the truth is it isn't. How do I know? Experience.
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At 13:54 3rd Jun 2011, Mrs Treacher wrote:What I mean to say is the purpose of their tent is to promote the sixth form.
It's good if you want your photo taken (Mark Talbot certainly puts on a good show with his Mac friends from AT Computers), if you want your nails done or to look at rabbits, but that is it. I know students that were there, drawn in by their propeganda of a great education but the reality drove them into depression.
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At 18:19 3rd Jun 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show is hardly the apprentice. I think people can easily over scrutinise, the Cornwall Agricultural Show is no dragons den
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