Good luck is important in life
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
April 19, 2013 10:01am CST
Today I signed into my email account once I got up. Yes at 5.40 this morning my local council school admissions sent me an email giving my daughter an ofter at my choice of primary school. It is the same school my disabled son goes to and it is a 15 minute walk away from our bungalow.
On the on-line application form I mentioned I already have a child at that school. I put that I needed it to be the same school otherwise one child would be arriving late or and leaving early. I had to put down 3 choices so I put the one I wanted plus two I know are way too popular.
I chatted to some of the parents of kids are the preschool. I am happy that my little girl's friend K got in. However I was very disappointed her friend B didn't get into the same school. My friend H, her mom, is very sad and wishes to appeal. She didn't get either of her two choices. I got good luck and she got bad luck. I think sometimes life can be unfair. What do you think? Did you child or children get into the school of your choosing?
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
19 Apr 13
When our boys are ready for school, we could get to choose a school if we were going to live in that district or near it. And there were also religious schools, but our sons went to a regular school down the street. Also we could choose a school if it had a better agenda. I know in England it depended on how good the marks are or what class you were to get into the right schools. I do not know if it is the same now. I know that my mother did not get into the academic school she wanted but got into what we would call a technical school here in Canada, and that affected her all her life. She got depressed and lost her will to try harder.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
19 Apr 13
I feel very sorry for your mother not getting into the academic school and she must have hated it at technical school. I used to live in Kent where they had the 11 plus examination. They had grammar schools for the clever and technology schools for the ones that didn't pass those Maths and English exams. Luckily I moved when my oldest son was in Year 6 the final year at primary school. Here they have secondary schools that are non selective. It is much fairer. My mom grow up in World War II. She was able to go to a grammar school and she did well there. In her career she was a librarian. Now she is is retired.
I know that the primary school sets for Maths and English from Year One onwards. They get good behavior and hard working children. They get good academic performance and are liked by the school inspectors. Yes, there are some religious schools like Church of England and Catholic.
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@sreejithsreenivas (10200)
• India
19 Apr 13
Yes, I believe in luck and I also believe in fate.It is hard to explain, but I believe in luck. To me everything happens for a reason and sometimes we are powerless to prevent or change it.To lose a Job,Girl/-Boyfriend or to fail to pass an exam are of cause unhappy things,but there is always a reason for.If all these things are happened at the same time,then you have to think about what's wrong with you and do it better.We have to create the situations that will allow the opportunity for real luck to occur.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
20 Apr 13
That's great that your daughter got into the school of your choice.
It does seem like a lot of life is based on good luck. It's hard to think like this because it would be better if life was based on something we can control, but a lot of things are just random chance and timing.
Still, I'm sure that your daughter's friend will get a good education and her mother will make it work.
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
20 Apr 13
Yes I believe the power of goodluck! Sad thing for me now are i cant't send my youngest daughter to my choice of school because she don't want to study far from our place. She is now a college level. Bt the way i congratulate you on your luck. I noticed always my friend Maxima that you always have luck! :) I'm happy for you and your kid. 
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
22 Apr 13
My kids went to the school of their choosing. It s a bit expensive as compared to the public school readily available (free), but I'm OK with it because I know that the school provide a good foundation.
The only thing that bugs me is that I've heard from a former co-worker that their kids went to a rather expensive school for free because of a government government program. I would have loved to know about it before my kids started at my school, and I would have loved to be lucky enough to get chosen.
@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
19 Apr 13
maybe not all about luck to you my friend.
maybe you just need to take a lesson from the mistakes in life and seek a decision not to do them next time because it hurts us.
and far up your child hope to enroll to study where you want it is important to have the desire for which I have no doubt that you simply need a little more effort to find a way.
and if you desire you'll find a way.
someone like you a lot of fights and I know that you will achieve your dream goal!
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
19 Apr 13
I remember when my mum was choosing a school for me, back then they were very fussy and the guidelines much more stricter, and it even depended on what side of the road you lived, can you believe that? Yes I agree you have to have a lot of luck, and it also pays to know someone in the know. I am strong believer of it's not what you know in life, it's who you know. And if you mix in the right circles etc... Fortunately I was never that lucky. I wish mum had sent me to an all boys school, but hey, I was too young to be able to choose my own school.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
19 Apr 13
I didn't know that you had the chance to choose the primary school that you prefer. In my country it isn't like that. Children automatically belong to the school in the area where they live. If the parents don't like that school they are able to contact another school, but children who live in that area have first priority. If the school is popular and there are too many students they say no the children who don't live in "their" area. Most students stick to the school in their area, but it is also possible to send the students to private schools if you don't like any of the public schools in the area where you live.
@marguicha (222844)
• Chile
19 Apr 13
Ibelieve in luck too, Maxine. I have done nothing special to account for luck in my marriage and for having several very special and close friends. I can go on making lists of good things that happen to my without my deserving them. Maybe some of it has to do with possitive thinking though, because I could dwell on terrible things that have happened to me in my life, yet feel blessed for what I had and still have.
