The Angry Habs' Boys' School phone call

I received an enquiry last week for 7+ assessment preparation.

This client contacted me with the intention of discussing 7+ assessment preparation.

This is not how the call went down.

The client began by asking a few questions about the 7+. Usual questions like when to start etc.

I answered her questions and then she told me about her son who had not passed the 4+ at Habs Boys’ School.

She told me that she had not prepared him.

When I asked her why, she got all sorts of shades of defensive with me.

Perhaps she heard my question as a judgement or perhaps she genuinely felt bad for sending her son into the Habs’ Boys’ School 4+ Assessment unprepared. I have no clue. The reason for me asking that question is because you 100% need to prepare for Habs boys - very carefully and well.

She got angry with me.

She told me that the school had told her not to prepare her boy and she listened. She asked me this…

‘Why would I not listen to the school, are you saying that they are not being truthful?’

That is absolutely NOT what I had said!

I had merely asked her WHY SHE HAD NOT PREPARED HER SON FOR THE HABS ASSESSMENT.

Listen up, you can listen to whatever you want in your 4+ Assessment preparation process - it really doesn’t bother me. But do not call me and get angry with me.

We prepared all 9 of our boys to go in and PASS the Habs’ Boys’ 4+ Assessment. 9/40 of the boys who passed were prepared by US. Hear me carefully. All 9 were very well prepared to a very high standard. They went in with the capacity and the capability to answer all of the questions that were asked and to do all of the activities that they were asked to do.

I get it - we are discussing our children here. And our choices are very important when it comes to our children. If things don’t go the way we planned, there really is no one to blame. It’s just a circumstance. Make changes so that your 7+ assessment preparation and chances for success go differently.

That is all.