Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
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