Would you send your kid to your old secondary school?

Black Swan

When I have kids, no. Poor career prep (Provided inadequate preparation for my profession), and bullies (Schools need to adopt a zero tolerance policy and then enforce it. Kids should not have to fight these social misfits while trying to get an education).

Ickle Magoo

I can't - they've knocked it down...:( or should that be

atheist

No

Newbridge College

We were the worst year on record, not suprising we had disturbed teachers

Muzzy

Nope....., we only had a handful of good teachers but it was OK when I was there, gone to shít now I believe. We used to always see our maths teacher locked on sunday nights and we had him first thing Monday mornings, great fun........ He'd ust leave every 10mins and go for a fag.

Would yis choose yer school for yer kids? I remember I choose the secondary school that I wanted to go to, I basically followed the majority of my mates.

My parents wanted me to go to another school. I simply said, "No, I'm going to Pat's"

r3nu4l

CBS Lucan (Coláiste Phádraig)

If it is still the same as it was...No way in hell!
Career advice was awful, some very, very good teachers but some woefully inadequate and terrible teachers too. There never seemed to be any anti-bullying protection, even for kids who came forward. Very much a 'couldn't care less' general school attitude at the time. PE was a joke in fifth and sixth year.

Dreadful, dreadful school, I was a good kid, never got in trouble, never bullied, wasn't the most popular kid but by no means unpopular, had lots of good friends etc but even still, the school was terrible.

JohnCleary

Smoking bongs in the toilets - no thanks

xzanti

St. Peter's College Dunboyne, No I plan to live on the south side so it would be too far, but if I lived near it I wouldn't see why not.. That's if I decide to have nippers

The Hill Billy

Holy Faith/De La Salle in Skerries - Now quaintly renamed "Skerries Community College".

Yup - My lad will be going there. Was fine for me & my siblings. Provided a good balance between education & personal development.

First I went to Mercy College in Coolock from 1997 to 2000 If there was 10 girl's who I started 1st Year with who weren't pregnant or on their 2nd Child by now I'd die of shock

Then I went to Mount Temple and it was a great experience
My sister goes their now and she said it's slipped since the principal Mr Maxwell has gone but i'd evaluate the school when i eventually have kids as I found it brilliant!

godtabh

r3nu4l wrote:

CBS Lucan (Coláiste Phádraig)

If it is still the same as it was...No way in hell!
Career advice was awful, some very, very good teachers but some woefully inadequate and terrible teachers too. There never seemed to be any anti-bullying protection, even for kids who came forward. Very much a 'couldn't care less' general school attitude at the time. PE was a joke in fifth and sixth year.

Dreadful, dreadful school, I was a good kid, never got in trouble, never bullied, wasn't the most popular kid but by no means unpopular, had lots of good friends etc but even still, the school was terrible.

I went there too. School was in a heap when I left and is getting worse. A friends brother goes there and he said there is all sorts of problems there.

Bill Murtagh (or how every you spell it) is the principle there.

There was a few good teachers but way to many poor ones.


I live 2 mins from there but there is no way I'd send a kid there.

Most people send kids to the nearest school as they'll get in there. If you live in Lucan and send your kid to Celbridge its a lot harder to get a place there

madds

Colaiste Chiarain, Leixlip

Didn't exactly enjoy my time there (left in 1990), and I believe standards really started to drop over the course of the following 5-10 years. Funnily enough though, I have heard from certain people that things are beginning to pick up again.

However, I've a 2-year-old so school selection is becoming a hot topic at the moment with 'er indoors. As we're on the train line I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has attended Castleknock College and their experiences there?

Cheers,
Madds

brown*eyed*girl

My 13yr old daughter is in 2nd year in the Secondary School I went to, Presentation in Waterford. She loves it there & I loved it there. As someone said earlier it's usually up to the student on how good an education they get. A lot of the teachers who teach my daughter taught me too. Parent teacher meetings were fun last year:eek: . I was "good" in school but my daughter is quite the rebel so a lot of my old teachers were saying how different she is to me despite being the image of me to look at & one or too even said "where did I get her out of!?". All my family went to the pres both primary & secondary. My Nanny, Mam, aunts & lots of cousins all went there & overall we all think its a good school. It can be strange talking to teachers who you had at PTM's but overall I've found it a very positive experience that lots of my daugter's teacher know me & genuinely look out for my daughter. None of them have been unpleasant.

I had my daughter in 6th year & even back then all the teachers & headnun were extremely supportive during the pregnancy. She was a few weeks old when I sat the leaving cert & without such nice teachers & a lovely headnun I don't think I would've gone back to do it & I did very well too.

DAEDULUS

Castleknock College...

the little fugger will be forced to go, no child of mine will be seen anywhere near rock/belvo grounds if i have anything to do with it

biko

Yes, why not? I went to a good school - Gumaelius.

exCrumlinBoyo

Most defiantly not me thinks. I went to the CBS on Captains road in Crumlin and as much as I enjoyed my time there, some of the teachers were pure muck. Man I don’t know how some of them became teachers at all. Some were plain dumb, some just had no passion for teaching, and some did. Say out of about 20 teachers I had in my time there, maybe 3 had an impression on me, by that I mean that they actually cared about their job and responsibility. The other 17 were made up of Muppets who, to this day, I don’t know how or why they ended up as teachers or made it into that profession. Maybe they were full of life starting the job as a teacher and as time went by they got the stuffing knocked out of them and ended up not giving a fcuk.

The answer to the OP question is most defiantly no. Sure the CBS on Captains is now closed, which is typical of the times today.

I live in the states and I am not entirely sure about the school system over here, public in anyway. It makes our school system look like its light years ahead, and that will tell you something.

My son will be ready for School next year and I will be sending him Private. If I was back home, it would be public, but not my old school.

rainbow kirby

I went to Sancta Maria in Ballyroan... Good school, just wasn't really a good fit for me. Too many snobby asshats, and the other half of my year was total skangers.
I'd be inclined to send my (unlikely to happen) future kids to mixed schools, and I don't particularly want them going to a Catholic school either.

Sleepy

The Bish in Galway. - Sure, once I'd taught him self respect, never to take anything you're told as gospel and how to fight dirty.

The majority of the teachers were good so despite a few awful teachers (most of which have retired since I left) LC results were always at the higher end of the spectrum.

There weren't too many knackers in my day and once you bloodied someone's lip they thought the better of having a go at you again so not really the hardest of hard chaws!

thelordofcheese

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Summerhill college

No, as I won't live in sligo.

But if I ever did, no, it is just full of knackers and there are a lot of terrible teachers. True, there are some great teachers and if my boy was not small in stature it might be ok for him.
I'd probably send my children to a mixed school though.

Same here. Well the summerhill bit anyway, i hated it at the time, and was very near the bottom of the social totem pole, but i think if i were to ever spawn some minature versions and i was living in sligo, i'd send them summerhill. It toughened me up a fair bit, and taught me alot about how the world works. Plus, chances are 90% of his friends will be going there too.


And nobody likes students from the grammer anyway...

layke

lol summerhill sounds like a prison.

Anyway, I went to the High School in Rathgar.

When I left in 2000 nice people and good teachers, however the 2nd years were little ****s fom what I remember. It was the whole Dublin hard man-boy image going around. But that's one year + I doubt Mr.Duffy (the Principal) would stand for it as i've seen many trouble makers 'asked' to leave over the years.

Lot's of sports, a gym, propper kitted computer room... and a lot of new buildings have gone up since. I personally would send my kids there as the majority of students who leave go on to a good career and are generally nice people.

I didn't enjoy my time there until I left looking back though you don't appreciate it until It's gone

fish-head

I went to Gonzaga in Ranelagh.

I would certainly send my kid there, it was a fantastic experience. Didn't really pick up until 5th year for me but when I picked up boy did it pick up. I was involved in plays, musicals, got elected prefect, put together a band and played loads of gigs. 95% of the people in my year were brilliant, most of the teachers were very nice. The had real care and concern for you. All in all the whole atomosphere and ethos of the school was great.

Even though I'm just out, I still miss it sometimes.

Tar.Aldarion

thelordofcheese wrote:

Same here. Well the summerhill bit anyway, i hated it at the time, and was very near the bottom of the social totem pole, but i think if i were to ever spawn some minature versions and i was living in sligo, i'd send them summerhill. It toughened me up a fair bit, and taught me alot about how the world works. Plus, chances are 90% of his friends will be going there too.


And nobody likes students from the grammer anyway...

Lool, yeah, we all hate the grammar people.
The only viable alternative is ballisadare and screw that place. I guess it would be summerhill by default and you get to see the all the girls at lunch, mercy ursaline etc.
God that ursaline uniform, yum.

Anyway yeah, it would toughen him up I suppose and he gets to go down town a lot.
It's kinda like this though:

lol summerhill sounds like a prison

thebaz

fish-head wrote:

I went to Gonzaga in Ranelagh.

I would certainly send my kid there, it was a fantastic experience. Didn't really pick up until 5th year for me but when I picked up boy did it pick up. I was involved in plays, musicals, got elected prefect, put together a band and played loads of gigs. 95% of the people in my year were brilliant, most of the teachers were very nice. The had real care and concern for you. All in all the whole atomosphere and ethos of the school was great.

Even though I'm just out, I still miss it sometimes.

I spent a couple of years there also -- wasn't academic so i didn't really fit in and had to leave !
Found it a bit posh for my liking , but i hear its changed a bit now -- Sports was my saviour and i enjoyed the rugby , but I missed soccer -- can't have everything !

Feral Mutant

If I had kids and it was nearby, yeah. There were a lot of good teachers (though a few bad ones), good school. Ardscoil Ris, Griffith Avenue. I only finished 6th year a few months ago though there seems to be an increase in skangers in lower years. I never thought there were many skangers in my school, then bebo set up a school page. Every second thing on my school's page is about the IRA. Still, it's a good school, mostly good students as well.

NoDayBut2Day

The school I'm at now... I would totally recommend it... for my kids too. ^_^

Demetrius

Like everything in life,my school had good points and bad points. It was relatively small (around 125 pupils, I think) and you were allowed to go downtown at lunch break (those are the good points I supposs.:) )

Some of the teachers weren't that great (in fact I'm thinking of about three or four that I would give the high road to without a qualm) and there were a few pupils that were completely uncontrollable (not the teachers fault that they were like that, but they ought to have been able to control the classes at least, never mind teaching)

All in all-no, I would not send him to it.

h2s

Sandymount High School.

I couldn't send them for two reasons - the school is closed down and we now live in kildare.

sonic juice

No no you would want your kids to have the best

Chinafoot

For 6th year I went to the Institute of Education on Leeson St.
I'd definitely send them there if they wanted to go. It's most definitely worth the money.

1st - 5th year was spent at Loreto Secondary School, Balbrrigan.
Based on my experience I wouldn't send them there.

There is a great need for an overhaul of the education system tbh. There are way too many teachers still holding positions that they shouldn't have. Our teacher for "computers" didn't know how to safe a file. Most of our classes involved us showing her how to do things.

Chakar

layke wrote:

lol summerhill sounds like a prison.

Anyway, I went to the High School in Rathgar.

When I left in 2000 nice people and good teachers, however the 2nd years were little ****s fom what I remember. It was the whole Dublin hard man-boy image going around. But that's one year + I doubt Mr.Duffy (the Principal) would stand for it as i've seen many trouble makers 'asked' to leave over the years.

Lot's of sports, a gym, propper kitted computer room... and a lot of new buildings have gone up since. I personally would send my kids there as the majority of students who leave go on to a good career and are generally nice people.

I didn't enjoy my time there until I left looking back though you don't appreciate it until It's gone

I went to the High School Rathgar too and like you I didn't really enjoy my time there I guess its no different from any other secondary school but boy did I get an education.The academic side of school the High School does very well indeed.

nando

I don't think I'll be living around there but no, I would not send any daughters to St. Joseph's College in Lucan.

It was ok when I was there I suppose and I did well, but it had started going down hill a lot before I left and I've heard bad reports lately. Subject choice is quite limited although there are quite a few good teachers.

I just think there are much better schools out there.