There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
