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More than ever before, a child’s chances of a good education depend on parents making the right decisions about schools. Letters to Parents gives frank and practical advice on how to identify a school’s strengths and weaknesses and how to plan your child’s schooling so that they have the best education available. A highly experienced educator and former headmaster, John Rae sets out to answer questions including: • How important are academic league tables? • Will I have to pay fees to guarantee a good education? • Which are the best state and independent schools and what do they have in common? This is the book parents have been waiting for. Choosing a school is always a gamble. Letters to Parents will improve the odds in your favour. Praise for Letters to Parents: ‘A useful antidote to much of the fashionable nonsense written about education. Letters to Parents is packed with good sense and can be confidently prescribed in all cases of parental stress and anxiety’ - Eric Anderson, Daily Telegraph John Rae (1931–2006) was a British educator and author who served as headmaster of Taunton School (1966–1970) and Westminster School (1970–1986). His celebrated novel The Custard Boys has twice been adapted for the cinema.