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A Parents' Guide to Primary Schools: (In Association with the "Good Schools Guide")
by Elizabeth Grahamslaw
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Virgin Books (2004-07-29)
ISBN: 0753508397
EAN: 9780753508398
Dewy Decimal #: 370
Paperback: 192 pages
SKU: B447-1018
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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cliched nonsense
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-07-25
35 out of 36 customers found this reveiw helpful
Picked this up by mistake in the bookshop while looking for the identically titled - and infinitely more useful - book by Katy Byrne and Harvey McGavin.It's written in the kind of patronising, cliched style you expect to find in those free lifestyle magazines that are packed with estate agents ads or the worst excesses of some 1950s housewive's manual. There's a really appalling passage addressed to Dads whose only function in the upbringing of their children appears to be in consoling Mum when she's in floods of tears after sending little Johnny or Jemima off for their first day at school. The writer is described as an "experienced journalist" but I've never heard of her. Google'd her name and all I could find was a single Daily telegraph article from 2001. Hardly what I'd call experienced! Very poorly researched - considering it's in conjunction with the Good Schools Guide - and sloppily written. If you've got young children at school the Byrne/ McGavin book is a much better bet.
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