Do you honestly believe that if the Muscat’s REALLY wanted to send their children to a church school their names would not have been picked?

Frankly however I think that none of this is really any of our business whatsoever.

Fay – your reasoning regarding church, private schools and values is absolute hogwash – goes to show what kind of mentality you have.

I think it was rather cheeky of the Muscats to enter the lottery and compete for two places could have been given to a family who really can’t afford a good education for their children.

I can truly see that many parents are deluded into thinking that by sending their kids to private schools they’ll turn their kids into ‘better material’.

I’m sorry to burst their bubble, but no amount of ‘quality’ schooling will turn idiocy into genius. I truly pity them, seeing such parents sweating it by working long hours to pay the astronomical fees. They do all this, so they can boast to everyone how ‘better’ their kids are, even if the kids are born failures.

I received my primary, secondary and tertiary education at government schools and institutions. I am no genius but I have still achieved success in life, both in terms of career and personal satisfaction. So why all this fuss when a government school will do just fine?

[Daphne – You were fortunate in being born intelligent. Intelligent people do well everywhere, unless they have serious problems on the home front. But if somebody who is not intelligent struggles to achieve four O-levels at a private school, then he will leave a government school with none.]

Fay. your comments are absurd. Goes to show you have absolutely no idea how private schools work.

Well, you can always search for statistics and see which school leavers get the best grades. This, notwithstanding the fact that all school-leavers of private schools have a much wider social experience than those who went to state schools.

Actually, they went on a ‘tour’ of private schools before entering them into the lottery.
Most probably, they did not like any of them (strange thing surely.. but nothing is normal when it comes to the Muscats).

[Daphne – Quite frankly, I think they did what many other parents do who can afford a fee-paying school but want to chance their luck at saving some money: enter them into the church schools lottery, and if they don’t come up, put their names down for a fee-paying school.]

Just a quick note – my reference to “politicians’ private lives” shouldn’t be construed as some sort of barbed reference to the whole Magistrate affair. When private lives influence public affairs, the public interest must prevail. But where an individual chooses to send their children to school ought to be down to the parents, and nobody else.