WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL?
Sit,-1 should be very glad if I might ask for your readers' help. My problem is this: My son, aged eleven, has been well-taught in a primary school and we were happy at the prospect of his going to the excellent grammar school that appeared his next step. Now we have moved and find the only available gram- mar school in our new district absolutely appalling from every point of view—this is not only our private opinion, it is the general view of the district.
We feel we must give our son the best education we can afford and so now have to go on the other tack and find a prep school for him with a view to his taking Common Entrance in two years' time. He is intelligent and well-taught, but will naturally be behind in languages, and I find most prep schools do not want a boy of this age (quite under- standably).
There must be others of your readers whose children have, for various reasons, fallen
between the same iwo siools and I should be very glad to know what their solution has been. Alternatively, can anyone recommend a prep school, with a good reputation for work, that will take a boy at eleven—preferably in the western half of the country?
Since the grammar school I mention could very easily be identified if you publish my name and address, I must ask you to allow me to sign myself—Yours faithfully, PERPLEXED
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