-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 02-Nov-2017 02:28 <=-   
      
    NB>> your wife might have gone along with it anyway   
      
    MK> That I seriously doubt given that she thought I was playing favourites   
    MK> with the eldest being the favoured one.  I of course disagree(d) with   
    MK> that assessment but was not all that vocal about it, not that it   
    MK> really mattered as it wasn't really a serious issue.    
      
   And which one were you threatening with the Catholic girls school....?   
      
    NB>> Fortunately, it wasn't needed   
      
    MK> Also I don't believe it would have worked even if it was needed.  I've   
    MK> only met one girl who was sent to the school in question and it seemed   
    MK> to me at the time that she was probably as bad as she ever was   
    MK> although I don't know exactly how bad she was when she was sent as I   
    MK> met her in later life (18-19ish).  Also she was from a very well to do   
    MK> family and behaved like the typical rich girl spoiled type.  That was   
    MK> my only real life experience with such matters so my view is more than   
    MK> likely skewed by that particular encounter.    
      
   Sounds to me as though the family background had as much to do with   
   things as any benefit/effect the school might have had....    
      
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