When I was teaching I had two massive objections to the idea of students being tutored. First of all, there was nothing worse than trying to teach a child something, only for them to say: "But sir, my tutor told me to do it this way." The possibility of confused learning was huge. I also recoiled against the idea of children being so heavily tutored that their work or examination performance would be significantly skewed. Admittedly, these concerns still abide but, through my

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Three of the most common things local families ask me about (when considering UK schools for their children) are bullying, school food and homesickness. Bullying Youngsters can be terribly unkind creatures, preying on one another's insecurities and idiosyncrasies - and there is no doubt that when they live together in large groups, this has the potential to be much more potent a force than when children disperse to their own homes at the end of the school day. That is why boa