Talk:Reading School

My old school. Just thought I'd mention it, that's all :) Dan100 17:56, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Those amazing results are achieved at the expense of less able pupils, whose parents are quietly encouraged to take them elsewhere, so as not to sully the league tables. This practice is as common now as it was 20 years ago, though at least then the majority of pupils were actually from Reading. Now most entrants are from prep schools in other parts of the county.

The vast majority of Reading children are crammed into failing comprehensives which have nowhere near the same level of funding and facilities.

quietly discouraged? its not that subtle. as a former pupil, id say the school is openly and unashamedly elitist, for better or worse. the way i saw it, the attitude was that the "best" pupils deserved the "best" schooling (inverted commas used as many people inside and outside the school would debate both these points)

This is yet another argument put forward by people like Tony Blair that simply do not know what they are talking about. If the more academically smarter boys go to the other schools, then they are held back, and kept at the same slow pace as the other students. They would stick out hugely, and be bullied. Many would try to just join the crowd under peer pressure, and potential intelligence would be wasted. Fewer opportunities will be open to them, and their life would get to the point of severely depressing, if not chosen to be deliberately dumb. People have got to stop with the "everyone is equally intelligent to begin" political correct bullshit, as it is simply not true. 80% inherited, and 20% environmental. And I wouldn't say most are from prep schools, I'd say less than half of my year there are from a prep school.

I go to the school, and I would say that 70% of my year came from state-funded schools. The other 30% are from prep schools, but most of these went to prep schools because they push their students much harder to get into the grammar schools.

Its the classic debate - but it still stands that the one of the only area in england which still used a grammar school system (Cheltnam/Gloucester) gets some of the best results.

Hey, my old school as well - and I'm a half-celebrity as well - was on the UK version of Beauty and the Geek, wonder if that should go on there... Heh JebJoya 03:09, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Put yourself in and see if anyone complanins!

my old School too. The point about Classics/Latin. When i was going through gcses and deciding A-levels, there were two people in the year wanting to study A-Level Latin and 14 for A-Level Classics. The school ran Latin instead of Classics at A-Level. Students and parents weren't happy, during a meeting with the headmaster he basically explained that he was being forced to run Latin A-Level to maintain the reputation of the school. Acairns 13:41, 12th May 2006 - I work for the BBC, does that count me as a minor celebrity?  :-)

ACairns - No relation to John perchance? Went on a Maths Camp with him :) Heh. As for the latin arguement, I'm quite surprised that was the case - I didn't realise either that Latin was seen as that much more elite at A-level than Classics, or that the school cared that much... Meh, goes to show how out of touch the Sciency students are with the Artsy ones :) --JebJoya 15:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

School site section

Couls someone write more about the history of the schools site - as it has a long history, ti would be a shame to miss out on it.

dates would also be helpful

Picture

just a security note - is it OK to have images of children on the internet - I know it is petty, but in todays world, this might be frowned upon - just a point to consider - maybe a photo of the school without the children might be better.

Sad but true - taken down for now - still available here: Image:Reading_school_berks_uk.jpg. I dont have another pic anyone else? Zephyris 09:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

It's probably as OK as any pictures of adults (image rights and so forth). If you're really concerned, just reduce the image size to make identification from the photo impossible. In the more general sense, I think it's likely that predators are aware that there are children at grammar schools, so you're not exactly passing on any new information... --Eyrian 11:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough... Zephyris 13:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)