Adults are wrong to criticise ‘woke’ children, says Benenden head

Of course she won't. Apart from a few hundred spluttering commenters who are probably well above the age when they'd have kids schools to worry about.

How ageist and unpleasant.

If have woke teens and like them you are more likely to be respectful of their (yes sometimes misguided) thoughts.

So you have to have a woke teen to be qualified to comment on this utter virtue signalling bullshit?

I have two non woke nieces, am I allowed to give a shiny shit about them or am I too old and spluttering to be allowed an opinion?

Oh here we go, stick the boot into private schools. Don't dress this up as feminism, please.

While everyone conveniently forgets about all the other stuff you aren’t so progressive on (only the other day, a friend was telling me about the extensive racist bullying and singling out, by teachers as well as by other pupils, that she experienced as a non-white pupil at one of these very expensive girls’ schools - it wasn’t Benenden but very similar.)

Apart from a few hundred spluttering commenters who are probably well above the age when they'd have kids schools to worry about.

Why is it not allowed for older women to care about younger ones? Or to have an opinion about things?

What is the criteria for being allowed to comment on this?

I would be taking my girls out of that school. I how she gets a backlash on this.

Why should you only be able to have a supportive environment for girls if you pay more than most people can afford? How is this progressive? It's all right Jack, is what it is. It's a problem for state schools, but that's too bad, it's not for us? Excellent.

I agree there is pressure on teen girls. Funnily enough there seems less pressure re looks at our single sex private school than there was at the local state (dd wnet to both)

Has anyone else read the "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark? The girls in that story aren't really the ones with the problem...

And I’m not trying to make a dig at you kikkomam. Maybe your children go to a school that doesn’t have these problems.

However, I am making an observation about pressure on teenage girls. I am not being ‘mean’.

In Glasgow you could go to a school in Bearsden and a school in Easterhouse, just a couple of miles away as the crow flies. You could note the difference in height of children of the same age. You may also note various other differences, such as motor skills and co ordination, confidence, energy levels. You could also note the fabric of the respective buildings, the resources, the staffing levels, and a long list of other things.

These differences are apparent already in primary school age children, and they will break your heart.

Perhaps ask your local state secondary what their polices are on transgender inclusion, I doubt you'll be very happy about those either.

How is that in any way the point?

Not for the majority of girls at my dds high achieving single sex indie, no. Plenty aren't on the hockey team and there isn't a 'right' haircut

Good for you. I went to a single sex private school and I go to the alumnae events and receive the magazines. The pressure is huge. I would guess that some parents don’t think this is too harmful as long as it achieves the right results. I remember the eating disorders and breakdowns.

I mean, if you've never gone hungry and you've never been poor you can end up having quite skewed priorities. You can lose yourself in a dream of abstract principles unrelated to NHS waiting lists, electricity bills, and zero hours contracts.

YY. It's very easy to make lofty pronouncements about being "inclusive" with other women's rights when you're never likely to end up in a refuge or women's prison, and have never wanted for anything.

Oh, if you want a pop at private education then I can understand the motivation behind this thread more. Perhaps ask your local state secondary what their polices are on transgender inclusion, I doubt you'll be very happy about those either.

'We should be doing far more to try and look hard at actual privilege, and forget about some of the confected hierarchies that don't really have the impact we are given to believe.'

God, this should be tatooed on to some people forheads imo.

There is nothing new about this. Feminists have always talked about these issues.

I go past a private school on my way to work on the bus, a popular one on the top of a hill. There are some of the students who get the bus. There was until recently a boy who got this bus, he was a strapping lad who always wore normal school uniform except for a school girls skirt, v short. I saw an interview with the head of this school recently, there was a pic of the head for the interview. The head seemed to be wearing what appeared to be more of less a grown up version of the school uniform (the boys version).
It gave me a very uncomfortable feeling.