to be happy with the education my children are receiving at their independent school?

[PtolemysMummy]

I'm content with their education. I'm happy that they mix with children from multi-ethnic and varied-income homes.

I do not regret the fact that we can afford to send them to a private school. (If I'd been that bothered I'd have had more than four children to make it financially impossible).

Give it to me straight - AIBU?

[Anchovy]

LOLOL

How does it feel, though, not being part of the community?

[NormaSnorks]

Of course YANBU...

Meanwhile, AIBU to be VERY happy that the parents of all my children's friends at their independent school are thoroughly nice, hard-working, ordinary people who shop at BHS rather than Boden, drive clapped out old cars (can't afford a shiny 4x4) and come from a wide geographical area (rather than a tiny middle-class enclave in a one-mile radius around a well-thought-of state school)?

[PtolemysMummy]

Well we are part of the community. School is just school. We do lots of community things with state school families...... We wear rubber gloves and SARS masks, naturally.

[noonki]

as long as you don't mind the possiblity of subjecting them to meeting Xenia at the school gates...

[Combustiblelemon]

PMSL PtolemysMummy.

[NormaSnorks]

Ha - I've often thought how much I'd LIKE to meet Xenia... I think I'd like her!

[pointydog]

Nobody with a son called ptomely is reasonable

[Combustiblelemon]

Hm Pointydog. I could say that nobody with a son called Jayden is reasonable, but I wouldn't because that would be classist bollocks wouldn't it

[noonki]

is ptomely a name?

[pointydog]

You could but it wouldn't be relevant to the opening spoof post so out of context it would be bollocks

[MrsShalloway]

I'm very content with my children's education and the fact that they are both top of the class. Did I mention they are in a state school (a very good state school btw)?

Aibu to send my bright lovely children to a state school, even though I could afford to go private?

No, I don't think so. My children don't need extra funding to shine intellectually or an early introduction to elitism for that matter

[policywonk]

Well said pointy

[AbbeyA]

You would be rather silly if you weren't content but went on paying regardless!

[Combustiblelemon]

Yes it's a name, and the fact that it's a spoof doesn't mean that it's fair to say things like that. But as you've said, you think I'm unreasonable.

[pointydog]

it is feasible that I would find it funny for someone to comment on the name Jayden. I see it more as sense of humour rather than classism.

[JuneBugJen]

I know a 4 year old Ptolomy in Exeter. Is that you?

[bloomingfedup]

FFS.

[Yanda]

Ooh I'm in Exeter, will keep an eye out for a young Ptolomy how do you say it?

[Combustiblelemon]

London, and ignore the 'P' to pronounce it.

[pagwatch]

>

[JuneBugJen]

with a silent P. Think it is something Egyptian.

Ptolomy from the West Countreeee

[PoppyFox]

You're overthinking it. Clearly you didn't go to private school yourself. You're on the way up.

I'm on the way down. My children at a state school. I over think that one.

[MrsShalloway]

will make more effort

[LynetteScavo]

YABtotally U!

What a boring, passive agressive OP!!!!

[MrsShalloway]

God,Poppyfox, what a way to think, on the way down! I feel sorry for your kids and not because they're at a state school [hmm}