Even the bank account from which I’ve been funding vision therapy would concur. It’s worth it.

Likewise. I'm really hoping that the zeitgeist will have changed before my kid gets to secondary. Already had to dodge a strict infants school(!). This article was a bit of an eye opener. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

All done and dusted within the hour usually. Booking one 10-minute session for primary is more complicated, somehow.

Ours has a thing where you say you’ll take the most efficient appointments (and you can deselect subjects you’re not that bothered about) and it does it all for you!

I am going to use this in the coming years. “Is the licence required because it’s mightier than the sword, or because you like to make a dreadful fuss about handwriting even though secondaries don’t care as long as it’s legible?”

My personal & subjective €0.02 as someone inside the Brussels machine is that non-Brit colleagues have v rapidly adjusted to the UK as a 3rd country in every respect, for good & ill. No special status as former member; no expectation or appetite for ‘re’join; but no bitterness or negativity either.