Stillness (was Re: Home Schooling - now also long)

[Neil Ward]

David said:

<< When we lived in London, my children went to a racially and 
culturally fairly mixed primary school in Lewisham (Stillness, Neil, 
do you know it?), with British white, black (as well as W Indian and 
African), Turkish, Pakistani, Greek, Chinese and others (still fairly 
unexciting compared to, say, Southall). >>

Stillness is an oddly inappropriate name for a place so full of noise 
and life, isn't it?  I don't know it.  On the one hand that's 
understandable, as I'm a childless bachelor, but on the other hand 
I'm a member of Lewisham People's Panel - a representative group of 
1,000 residents who act as a sounding board for the Council - and I 
do get asked to comment on the state of schools, hospitals and cracks 
in the pavement, so I *might* have heard of it.

Lewisham is rather a dull place to live, but it is culturally diverse 
and the Council is quite effective as councils go.  

This adds nothing whatsoever to the home schooling debate, but I can 
imagine that home schooling is not that common over here and probably 
negligible in my Borough.    

Neil (who should just have answered "No" shouldn't he?)