The start of that “kids say the darndest things” article says this
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At the time I believed this, because who would lie about that? But knowing bits of Essex as I do, I did find it quite surprising that she had to accept a school for SB that was so far away. Seemed so unlikely that there was literally not a single primary school with a place for SB within a 14 mile radius. That’s a lot of schools. I mean, a LOT. Dozens and dozens of potential schools.
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But now we know it was a choice, and that SB went to a school local to his dad, and that his dad would have done the majority of the school runs, not Jack making long, arduous and expensive train journeys twice a day, five days a week.
How the dad managed to bite his tongue I’ll never know.