Fair enough, my point being that these are individual cases relayed normally by people not directly involved and who aren't necessarily as aware of all the facts from both sides of the story as they might think.

Horniman is very definitely not perfect (one of the things I happen to like about it) but I think the way it can be portrayed reflects unfairly on it.

On the flipside, Fairlawn remains a great school despite the fact that I'm aware of children who have left there and gone to both Horniman and Eliot Bank and subsequently thrived. I don't think such isolated cases are useful to people who want to know what schools are really like until they become more than isolated.