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  My children have either finished school or are nearly finished. My son is at Durham Uni and doing well - he is motivated and bright. He is at Durham despite rather than because of his school and the system. My girls are less fortunate. I am not abdicating my responsibility in their education - far from it! But school is paid for educating children and my girls were let down by a chaotic and unfocussed system which has talked the talk but has failed to walk the walk. My youngest girl will do well, again despite the system rather than because of it and because she has the examples of her siblings to reflect on. My husband and I work hard, long hours in demanding jobs and we work just as hard at supporting our children - we expect the schools to do their bit to support us in bringing up and educating our children. The jobs we do support our society in the same way schools are supposed to - it seems reasonable to expect some symbiosis. We have found that emails and letters go without response, there is less time to educate those who need a bit of extra support because the school appears to focus mainly on those who will show up positively on their stats, meetings are arranged during a working day which is almost impossible for us to factor into our diaries, especially when they are short notice, and parent-teacher evenings are noisy and chaotic reducing to almost nil the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about ones child, if the teacher can actually remember who they are.
  
  These are the "better" schools. Goodness only knows what the others might be like, although I have heard positive things about some of the schools who do not have the title and (very historic) reputation to fall back on and therefore may try harder.

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