Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

If a single parent has a partner move in they have to declare for Working Parents Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit purposes and also for CH fees. Why? Because those are the rules. Fraud is fraud and the honest people end up paying for it - whether it is benefit fraud or covering up income for the pu...

lonelymom with regard to the new rule about mortgage/rent payments it could work something like this: Your mortgage payments are £4,100 per year so you are restricted to 12.5% of your gross income, which means that they only deduct £2,600 whereas if her payments were a little lower the whole amou...

The fact is that for me, CH wasn't one among a number of options, it was the only option. If my son was not at CH he would be in a school where bullying is rife, coming home on a school bus where beatings up are regular and setting fire to the bus is not unusual and which no longer goes onto part of...

I do not see that this is a tricky subject. I would refer you to one of my favourite quotes: All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Why aren't you furious with your friend rather than CH? Maybe if people like her weren't defrauding the Foundation, they wouldn't have...

I do object to those parents who are deliberately disguising business accounts, not declaring second homes and those who claim to live alone when they have a partner whose income is part of the household income but who do not declare it. There must be some way to make these kinds of frauds more dif...

I'm going to take a really deep breath here; I don't want to upset anyone but... Imho CH wasn't designed for fairly well-off middle class people. At the risk of stating the obvious: It is unique and very, very, different from "other fee paying schools". As we all know there is a strict res...

Ah.. thank you. Bit unfair on real trolls, really... they do get a bad press generally and I'm sure some of them are simply misunderstood. I've met some quite reasonable trolls.

Still I think I'll provide them and see what happens

Sherberts and a pair of binoculars

I suspect he'll be too busy nattering....

I feel a bit like the legendary judge here - but: What is a troll??

Yet another milestone - my DS (Third Form) has announced that he wants to come home on the train next leave weekend. He says there will be a few of them going the same way (pupils not trains :roll: ) and at least one who will be going to the same station.... Harry Potter has a lot to answer for!! T...

Oh JR! Well, at least it's clean.....

Yada Yada you've put your finger on it - that's exactly what I'm feeling! I do like the idea of train-chasing across the Surrey countryside but I think I'll restrain myself... I have e-mailed the parent of one of the children who takes the same route and he has reassured me that it's a fairly easy p...

I agree completely with LJG's comments. Due to disruption in my home life I didn't take A levels until much later. I only have a mediocre 'O' Level in French, but still managed to take a reading course in 18th century French as one of my modules at Uni. I now speak it to a pretty good level, due to ...

Agreed. It does seem to imply a certain amount of control... ohspacebar hasgotstuckoncomputer-timetosignoff!