George’s education costs

Less with the old!
Do you really have a big bum?

Christ. Thanks enough Mumsnet for today.

rah rah, that’s the spirit old girl.

This post isn’t about Harry though is it?
So why are you banging on about him?

I think the first observation is very much open to debate - there are different ways of calculating this, I'm sure.

On the second, no, he couldn't. Because we've created this ridiculous situation where an insanely wealthy and pampered 13 year old genuinely cannot, and cannot be expected to, lead a normal life. That's the problem.

The royals generate more money than they cost, and do you really think George could rock up at a state school? There are very few places he will fit in and be safe. Eton makes sense.

MauriceTheMussel · Today 11:36
Believe it or not, if you employ reason, you can be impartial. You apply the law to a situation. It’s actually quite sterile. Separate the man from the music, if you will

Yes I dare say, but your criticisms about the royal family are spiteful and gloating. When you loathe an institution as much as you do it’s impossible to be impartial.
Do you hate all posh/rich people, or just the royal family?

Divorce and loss of a parent at an early age can have severe adverse effects on a developing adult brain, however privileged. Add in the constant press, he may have been suffering mentally and then turned to drinking etc like many people with mental health issues and post traumatic stress/grief. Hence why he may have performed well at GCSE relatively speaking and then less well during A levels. During A levels you really need to work hard and be able to concentrate well. Not something many kids with trauma can do.

Do we also celebrate Harry getting a B in his Art exam? The same exam it was alleged Harry cheated (and the whistleblower teacher got paid 45k as awarded by an employment tribunal)? Yes, ALL academic achievement. Doubt that happens down the road at my local failing comp.

Believe it or not, if you employ reason, you can be impartial. You apply the law to a situation. It’s actually quite sterile. Separate the man from the music, if you will. Ironically, some posters on here libelling my position as a magistrate haven’t managed to do that.

I hope those such posters keep all their personal opinions firmly away from work and separate church and state - and that’s down to, idk, not being into child labour but working for a company that somewhere in their supply chain uses it.

I have expressed my opinions on bang for the buck on the price of RF education (on grades as well as life education and how to be a decent person eg if your uncle or father is a dodgy character, selling trade secrets, or your mum sells access to the RF, dunno, maybe you should have enough moral fibre to step away from them or at least ‘ave a public word). I don’t think I’ve name called anyone with a different view to me (nor told someone their facts were wrong, when they weren’t, didn’t apologise and then doubled down on judgement, but ok). A llllllot of holier than thou on this thread.

If saying that hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on an education means you dress up as a Nazi or go grifting in the Middle East with your dodgy parents = a waste, I’m guilty as charged.

Magistrates are in short supply, we need more. There is a massive backlog in court which needs clearing urgently.
In our area good people are too scared to volunteer as there is some belief they might get harassed by petty criminals. And it is unpaid.
Maybe the Government need to professionalise that!
Seems far more relevant than harping on about the Royals.

@MauriceTheMussel

I was a solicitor and now I volunteer as a magistrate, which I am sure you will find issue with or otherwise mock.

I wouldn’t mock it, but given you evidently have strong prejudices I wouldn’t trust you to make impartial judgements.

I agree with @countrylife00 , @MauriceTheMussel .

Whomp whomp.

You are a snob.
you obviously feel superior and the need to belittle others.
You are very judgemental and I wouldn’t want you to be in a court…

I was a solicitor and now I volunteer as a magistrate, which I am sure you will find issue with or otherwise mock. Oh, I have also, from 2015-2019, volunteered two days a month at a food back in my area. I’m sorry I didn’t sell an organ to donate the proceeds of or whatever other ridiculousness you’ll retort. I could have been a much better person in life, and much worse, but I think I have served a decent function in society.

I’m really sorry their mum died, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have an opinion on cost of education to value of outcome. If you want a different example: Beatrice and Eugenie. Not a straight flush of As in decent subjects…film studies? Art? Drama? Again, if they went to your average comprehensive, fine, but that much privilege and expensive education…come on.

A rebel or revolutionary, @bafta16 .

What is an "insurgent"

So you stand by your comment to @MauriceTheMussel You cannot even get his A level results right.
Get your head out of the tabloids and stop believing all the tripe you read. ?

or did I miss the bit where you said sorry Mussel, got that wrong!

I understand your compassion - when I saw the photos of William and Harry, in the Tatler article, I felt it too. However, I am perfectly capable of wishing them the very best and also to criticise the slow moving, darkly hidden institution of the monarchy.

We celebrate all academic achievement at our school.
Hope you and your kids got straight As

Can you imagine being a Mum and having no compassion for a lad who lost their mother.
This lot on MN are something else. He had to watch his parents antics being played out to the world. I am glad some of us are able to be kind.

I'm no royalist but we are talking about a teenage boy who has lost his mum in a brutal high profile accident that shocked the world. In the circumstances they were decent results.

its the first time I’ve heard Tatler described as a tabloid, but I’ll grant you it’s not a regular read of mine. Short of asking to see the original certificates, seems like @MauriceTheMussel was correct though
( good knowledge for the pub quiz)

https://www.tatler.com/gallery/how-the-royals-did-in-their-a-levels

cant resist adding another reference from MEN (tabloid??) also agreeing with Maurice and a quote as articles of this type are usually trotted out to give comfort to A level
candidates from more modest backgrounds While you could expect the best private education to give you the best grades, this hasn't really been the case for the Royals, as they have a real mixed bag of exam results under their belts.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-royal-family-levels-including-24688294

I am not sure why Maurice’s job ‘had better be more important’ unless of course
they too have benefited from a background and education Equivalent to royalty.

You cannot even get his A level results right.
Get your head out of the tabloids and stop believing all the tripe you read.
Pray do tell us what job you do, because it better be more important than a RAF pilot or Air Ambulance pilot?