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Thanks, it is a relief to be sorted!

Thanks Jo. I won't be getting her baptised. If she decides at some point she wants to get baptised, she can.

Thanks rugrat!

My daughter got accepted after an interview. I feel the school suits her and they obviously must think so too. :)

Re: Bullying - The state schools my children have attended have all had no tolerance for bullying. My kids have experienced the occasional episode and it has swiftly been acted upon. I'm sure as parents we are influenced by our own experiences to decide what is best for our children. I...

I meant private catholic school.

I witnessed an incident on Friday when I was picking up my year 3 child. The end of school siren had just gone off. I was standing near another Year 3 classroom. there was a boy swinging off the door yelling out to his teacher, "Hurry up and let me go home, my uncle will yell at me for being...

thanks for all your replies. I thought some private schools had a percentage of non-religious people that they will accept. I think I might just forget about it and move states again at the end of this year. :mad: My daughter has gone from year 5 last year in Perth to year 7 this year in...

It's not all that simple jaycee. When my daughter was in daycare I asked the daycare teacher what primary school she would recommend in the area for my daughter. She said my daughter wouldn't survive at the public school that we fell into the zoning for as the kids were all quite tough and my...

I guess that is one good thing, I've heard there are a few kids from my daughters public school who are accepted into the private high school each year. Not sure of their religious backgrounds though.

yes, I'm Ok with that. My kids are at there 3rd public school and every single public school has mentioned 'god' as part of the school creed, or/and at every weekly assembly. Good idea, will look into further, I don't think so.

That i know of most usually baptise their child according to the religion of either one of the parents. One girl I knew had her child's name at a catholic school since her baby was born and he didn't get in so she ended up sending him to an Anglican school close by but I can't remember what he...

Over the past 12 years I've met many mums who have had there children baptised for the sole reason of being able to send there children to a specific Private School. I'm currently in a zoning for a public school that a few parents who I highly value have said, "You'd do anything to not send...