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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 22:03:21 GMT
I suppose it could be viewed like that but I ...blah blah blah... values and regardless of the money situation I would never authorise placement of my children into a non state-funded school. It won't happen. Are you sure because that's a hell of a lot of tea. There is no doubt here. I can raise the funds by disposing of one or two of the Saint Tropez based yachts but I would not wish to shackle my children with the horrible misfortune of having to mix with the offspring of people who send their kids to paid for schools. Not in a million years. This may seem like an extreme position but for the record I am not an extremist.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 22:03:52 GMT
I don't know about public schools but the private school I went to was amazing wonderful and full of dickheads with rich parents. I imagine a public school, being open to the public, would be an order of magnitude worse. I was even encouraged to play Golf! Golf is a good walk spoiled, but I was actually quite talented and there was someone who thought I was going places. No idea why anyone would have thought that but I suppose you do get optimists here and there. If the topic is about independent schools in general no thanks I would not send my children to one of these shithouses for all the tea in China. I'm not entirely sure you understand the difference between a public school and a private school? In fact I'm not entirely sure I do either. Surely both are in fact open to members of the public PROVIDED their parents can pay the exhorbitant fees AND they meet some sort of entry requirement. What actually is the difference, does anyone know? I was doing a joke. They are the same thing.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 10, 2021 22:08:52 GMT
Seems like a fair exchange to me I suppose it could be viewed like that but I ...blah blah blah... values and regardless of the money situation I would never authorise placement of my children into a non state-funded school. It won't happen. I think things have changed a bit since I was at school. And of course it depends where you live because you can't pick and choose which state school your kids go to (or maybe you can very slightly these days?) whereas you can of course send your kids to whatever public or private school will have you and your money. Anyway when I was little (well, not so little tbh) the local grammar school was a weird place. Bear in mind this was the early 1960s. Apparently it was co-ed but the boys had to sit on one side of the classroom and the girls on the other, they had separate playgrounds and were not allowed to speak to each other. Which was pretty weird. And also my mother disliked the head teacher (she worked as a Speech Therapist and had quite a lot of dealings with the school and its kids). So Public School it was (Warwick School), but only 15 miles away so I was a day boy (That is definitely spelt with a D thank you). But it was an all boys school so not quite sure what my mum was on about! Sister went to Kings High which was a related all girls school.
These days the same grammar school has a very good reputation, it has changed out of all recognition and I expect if my mother and I had jumped forward 50 years in time, she would have sent me to it and saved a lot of dosh. But then I wouldn't have an ingrained sense of superiority, so that would be bad.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 10, 2021 22:12:43 GMT
I'm not entirely sure you understand the difference between a public school and a private school? In fact I'm not entirely sure I do either. Surely both are in fact open to members of the public PROVIDED their parents can pay the exhorbitant fees AND they meet some sort of entry requirement. What actually is the difference, does anyone know? I was doing a joke. They are the same thing. Oh a joke. Well anyway not quite the same thing I suspect, though probably nearly identical from a practical viewpoint. I think public schools had some sort of charter whereas private schools can be set up by any Tom, Dick or Paedo.
On that subject my dad went to a weird private boarding school in Stroud, I guess in the 1910s or 20s. The headmaster sometimes shared a bath with the students but according to my dad, it was all entirely innocent and absolutely nothing untoward happened. But you can just imagine that happening today!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 4:04:09 GMT
you can't pick and choose which state school your kids go to (or maybe you can very slightly these days?) We got the kids into the "best" local state school not because of postcode but because the head teacher liked us (I must be a white well-to-do English bloke!) and gave us in-year placements for both children. Illegal for Academy schools to interview parents with a view to giving them school places but there we go. However the place was full of idiots and the head teacher is a witch. A proper one. We took kids out and got them into one of the undersubscribed schools which actually turned out a much more relaxed place to be, smaller class sizes and less of the idiots. All that nonsense about postcodes and catchment area fortunately completely passed us by. Speaking of which I find this very funny god I really hate the irritating middle class. Such a nuisance !!
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Post by patty on Aug 11, 2021 5:47:58 GMT
Little sis n I attended a Private School for 2 years to get us through the 11 plus Run by a crazy tiny ruler wielding old lady, she instilled fear in the hearts of all there except her grandson who would leave surprises in her desk of snakes and other such small boy delights. His regular whacks didn't deter him. She was so strict.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 6:08:26 GMT
I went to three different private schools.
Michael Hall Steiner school from 6-11, Stoke Brunswick nonce school for 6 months, (since closed and one of the teachers jailed for sex offences against boys), 6 months home education / crammer then Halliford boys school from 12-18 but my mum got me into the year 1 at Halliford so I did not complete the A levels due to having a small monthly allowance from 18 years old and preferring to play with boats than study for ruddy A levels in French, Spanish and Latin.
Told the head I was going while he was having lunch. Next time he saw me about a year later I was a long haired lout on a narrow boat !!
He had a friend with a boat. "Crosby! Is that you?" That was funny.
He had high hopes for me. I was part of the "intelligentsia" according to him. Oxford material, you know. Giggle.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 6:27:39 GMT
I feel you have no idea of the sheer amount of ye-yo you are so casually dismissing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 6:42:54 GMT
I do have one or two positive memories of these schools to be fair.
Well maybe just one actually.
Vomiting down the back of Ben Connops's blazer in the lunch queue.
He must have had a warm feeling.
Ben is a well paid robot at Taylor Wimpey now I think. Sensible lad finished his A levels and went to Uni I guess.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 11, 2021 7:46:53 GMT
Anyway wots this byass against boreding skules ...... I cervived
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 8:23:06 GMT
I was never a boarder just day time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 8:30:57 GMT
Anyway wots this byass against boreding skules ...... I cervived As did I We used to look down on the day boys, somehow they weren't quite rightπ± The thing that did disturb me about that article was that I could recognise some traits in my younger self. Luckily I have, like a fine wine, matured with age π€ I still have the letter, framed on my workshop wall, from the Headmaster strongly suggesting that it might be a good idea if I didn't return to finish my studies after the first year of sixth form π
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Post by thebfg on Aug 11, 2021 8:51:17 GMT
Obviously I'm only young and didn't go to a posh school.
But I thought public schools were still gov.uk funded and private schools weren't. There is a massive chance I'm wrong.
My kids used to go to an academy that was an independent school but still state funded.
They go to a normal school, except his is a 6th form collage.
You xan choose which schools they go to nowadays but not guaranteed to get enrolled if out of the catchment area.
Ther us a closer school for him but it didn't do the courses he was already doing before we moved.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 11, 2021 11:15:23 GMT
My school was highly approved. You had to have a recommendation from a magistrate to go there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 11:23:06 GMT
Anyone with any kind of education would know it's not wise to go to large events such as festivals whilst there's a viral pandemic on. Kindly reserve such comments for your covid threads if you please naughtyfoxI think all parents want the best education for their kids ... whether they can afford to pay directly for it is a matter of good fortune. No man worked harder than my old Dad ... but colliery working (even when he became an official) could never finance private education. Rog
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