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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Extremism aside, I suspect the truth of the matter lies somewhere in the middle.

ODs are trying to balance a number of variables: having most families happy with their next school, having the secondary schools happy with the primary school, and finding a good fit between each student and their secondary school. If too many parents leave feeling that the OD didn't help them (or actually hurt them), that is bad. If too many secondary schools end up dissatisfied with the kids who come from a given primary school, or thinking that the OD is not helpful to them in finding kids who will be successful, that is bad. If too many kids end up at schools which are poor fits, that is bad.

So I would never assume that an OD is 100% "in the corner" of a particular child, particularly if "in our corner" is defined as "doing exactly what we want". But I also would not assume that the OD has some hidden agenda and will in no way give parents good advice or support the child in their application.

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If you're 10:15, I think we're closer together than we initially thought -- I'm 10:04/10:31.[/quote]

No, that particular post wasn't from 10:15 (aka me), but I've made each of the points she's made elsewhere in this thread.  And, FWIW, I'm not the poster you've been trading insults with for pages.  I don't think anyone has argued that you shouldn't question an OD (in fact, it seems like "listening politely" to use the OP's language may have been part of the problem in this scenario -- at least to the extent that it means not interrupting or discussing but blowing off the other person's opinion) or that an OD is only looking after your DC's interests (as you understand them).

The perception of "extremism" come from an abrasive, straw-man style of argumentation and a refusal to acknowledge nuance -- as well as from the constructions of various composites based on mistaken assumptions about which anonymous posters are saying what.  I've seen my own posts cited as examples on both sides of this issue.

At any rate, I think that, at a substantive level, this discussion played itself out a couple of pages ago.[/quote]

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