Dear All,

I am amazed at some of the comments that Hippo has posted, the assumptions she/he jumps to and the fact that this person works at Newton is worrying.

However I also worked at the school, and decided to leave, due to my deep feelings of frustration due to the owners interfering manner in the running of the school.

Due to the acute shortage of places at schools in Doha, parents are forced to send their children to schools that would otherwise not be attractive and hat goes for local Qataris as well as the expats.

I didn't like Hippos tone one bit and deeply empathise with both groups of parents. What other choices do parents have?

Antihippo