To wonder whether you'd prefer to go to Malory Towers or the Chalet School

[Vintagejazz]

I just heard to girls about 11 years of age having an earnest discussion about this on the bus. I didn't think kids even read Chalet School books any more.
I think I'd opt for Malory Towers. They seemed to have more fun. I'd probably be expelled from the Chalet School for cursing, wearing lipstick and forgetting to speak German every Wednesday or whatever it was.

I think I'd opt for the Chalet School. I'd be bullied to death at Malory Towers by Darrell and her thugs friends for not being outdoorsy and sportsy and bursting with school spirit. I would probably be best friends with Gwendoline and everyone would hate me.

Given that I speak reasonable French and German, the Chalet School in a heartbeat. Far more opportunity for initiative, bigger school with flexibility of movement if you show progress.

Also Kaffee und Kuchen

Chalet School.

Everyone there is unbearably smug, but that's marginally better than everyone being a snobbish bully.

Quite fancy the "positive featherbeds of whipped cream^ too.......

Chalet School here too.

Well personality wise I think I'd prefer the Chalet school, I think I'd find better friends there.
However the idea of doing 3 different languages sends shivers down my spine. I know they all tell you that you'll soon pick it up; learn 10 new words a day and you'll be fine, but I have a suspicion I might have proved them wrong. I think as well I would have found Joey's "breeziness" totally embarrassing rather than charming too, as well as being petrified by Bruno.

The swimming pool at MT sounds lovely, though possibly better through the pages of a book than actually in it.

Dd2 had no doubts, she asked me to send for the prospectus for CS, and was most upset when I had to let her know it wasn't a real place. She did go as a Chalet School girl (in brown gym slip and flame tie) for book day last year.

Also might get to meet some hunky doctors at the Chalet School. At Malory Towers you'd have to make do with a crush on the PE teacher.

Oh, definitely Chalet school. They have a much nicer attitude towards younger siblings and Alicia always struck me as being a bit of a bitch.

Great to hear about today's kids discussing it though! Maybe new reprints of the Chalet school books are in the offing (PLEASE!).

You're all MAD . Don't you realise if you go to the Chalet School you will be married off at seventeen to a doctor and expected to have at least twelve kids by the time you're thirty

Malory Towers. If only for the swimming pool at the bottom of the steps.

Darrell and I would have been bosom buddies.

And I never read the Chalet School.

I suspect neither (though I loved the books).

Like DeWee I really don't think I could have handled three different languages, I was always particularly dense at French and German although I did eventually scrape an O-level grade C at German.

And while as a child I read and re-read MT I would probably have hated it. I would have been the scholarship oik who couldn't swim and hated games.

Jack Maynard would be looked at by Yewtree, that's fo sho.

I think Malory towers sounds idyllic! It's been years since I read the books but I loved them when i did.

The chalet school would be fun too. Hard decision to make. Personally I wouldn't mind being married off at 17 to a doctor!

Chalet School would be my choice - all that cake and cream, as well as skiing, sounds like it would be fun. I'm horrendously bad at languages, but always thought that History lessons would be interesting (even if I wasn't sure what reasoning from cause to effect meant...)

Chalet school. I used to fantasise about it :o

I'd have been kicked out of the lot of them rather than them whipping me into shape.
And I'm not sure whether I'd have been Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. And i would have hung out with the twins

Pip pip old beans

www.ggbp.co.uk for the books - don't have them all in print and they use the original text (paperbacks were cut down to varying degrees)

Malory Towers so I could swim in that pool and play tricks on mamzelle.
I might slso be tempted to put Darrell Rivers in her place too.

Hmm Skiing, cream cakes and hunky doctors versus Lacrosse, School spirit, and outdoor swimming.

I think I'll opt for the Chalet School .

Chalet School, but only in its Tyrol days. :)

OMG! Chalet school all the way! I had my bedroom arranged exactly as new girls were told to organise their cubicle, much to the amazement of my mother, as it involved binning all the clutter and only having my brush and comb and a photograph on my 'locker' by the bed.
I sooo wanted to hang my 'plumeau' out of the window to air...
I could also have married a handsome doctor from the San; I would have been friends with Len and Con and fiery Margot.

Mallory Towers!
I want to do that run to the island via the tidal causeway have I made that up?! And swim in the natural pool created by the rocks...

Awesome.

Chalet School definitely! But I'd have gone back to be a teacher before being married off to a doctor.

Definately chalet school. I might have been sporty (rock climbing, canoeing, ice dancing, ballet) but I suck at hockey, lacrosse, tennis and swimming - all mallory towers preferred sports. I liked their reading in bed and being allowed out of school grounds too.

Although, either school would have thrown me out with my penchant for 90's grunge (ironically followed by blonde Barrie doll look).