Eton College apologises after allegations pupils jeered visiting state schoolgirls

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If true, why has no one been expelled?

www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/18/eton-college-apologises-after-allegations-pupils-jeered-visiting-state-schoolgirls

Private school sanctions a number of boys after investigation into misogynistic language and racial slurs.

Eton College has apologised and “sanctioned” a number of pupils after allegations that a group of girls visiting from a nearby state school were subjected to misogynistic language, racial slurs and jeering.

The boys’ private school near Windsor, Berkshire, told the BBC that an investigation took place into the incident which occurred during a speech by Nigel Farage last week.

A person, who said they were a parent of one of the girls who attended the speech, wrote on social media anonymously that the students were booed inside the lecture theatre and were subjected to “racial slurs” and “generally misogynistic comments”. They said of the private school pupils: “Their behaviour was awful.”
The poster also said that Eton boys had cheered Farage’s “worst comments on migrants and Covid”.

The college told the BBC it had apologised “unreservedly” for the “totally unacceptable” behaviour.

Some kids who go to Private schools are awful, some kids who go to State schools are awful.
My DD has been verbally abused by kids from our local Comprehensive for being “posh” and a “snotty bitch” for walking past a bus stop. They also threw things at her until an adult intervened. DS’s friend was assaulted on a bus purely because he was wearing the uniform of a Private school.
Its all wrong and if whichever school is involved (State or Private) is award they should severely punish the kids who behave like this

@Hoppinggreen there have been a raft of DC from my kids private school getting beaten up and having their phones stolen on the way to school by children from the local comp. It definitely cuts both ways.

Sure, but the difference with Eton is many of these boys are the sons of desperately wealthy people, are often raised internationally and are used to rarely seeing their parents, have had staff who cater to their every whim, have no concept of what life is like for majority of the population and their behaviour often reflects that…

I can’t give details apropos my earlier post, I don’t fancy being sought out and sued. A lot of the boys are great with even normal backgrounds, but there’s some boys who truly believe they can do what they want.

Silly. These schools and Oxbridge often invite controversial people to speak. It is part of learning how to form your own opinion. You don't foster intelligent debate by just listening to people you agree with.

Just like they may invite a Chinese People's Party representative- fascinating debate to be had

Quite.

@Herejustforthisone but a tiny minority.

And lets face it - those uber wealthy children are found in all public schools in the UK.

Eton is far, far more academically rigorous these days and you need to be bright to get in - parents of bright kids are likely to be bright themselves.. I do think Eton has a toxic legacy but I do not think it is the school it was. At all.

I feel genuinely sorry and worried for people that call children "entitled twats" because their parents chose a school for them.

@walkinginsunshinekat

See @edwinbear who puts it so much better than me.

Yes please can take loans - with interest- to pay university fees, some may not. Either way if 20% vat is added, there is more to pay, more to borrow.

Said it up post but Nextflixs Anatomy of a Scandal (I think it's based on the Bullington club in Oxford University) with Sienna Miller depicts this old boys Netflix so perfectly. Fascinating storyline & shows how much this old boys club gets away with...

I wonder if Prince George will be off to Eton in a couple of years?

I'd imagine the Cambridges will go to a mixed school? Marlborough? Lambrook was an interesting choice & wasn't on the "insiders" radar so I doubt they will be go to the obvious schools like Eton...

@MuraRocker

" I actually think he's quite an interesting character. I used to believe that he was all those things too, until I started learning a bit more about him, and discovered what I had been led to believe wasn't actually true."

What things that you had been led to believe about him are not true? I'm really interested as I have never ever come across anything about him that shows an even vaguely positive part of his character.

@MuraRocker Thanks - would be interested to watch it.

The pupils concerned have behaved disgracefully, but they have at least one former pupil as a role model.

@duckbilly I really don’t think you need to worry about people who call out these young idiots for being entitled twats. I am married to an ex Etonian who saw the place for what it was, persuaded his family to let him leave early, and chose his own direction. Those children, by that age, are entirely complicit in their own idiocy.

Your Dh sounds great!

@mrBanks couldn't disagree with you more.

Met him once, he was as expected

Wouldn't you at least expect adequate supervision at an event, with guests, where staff salaries are really no barrier to supplying it? I mean comp kids on a bud are not the same as Etonians at their own school.

I didn't go to a great school but the teachers would have flayed me alive if I'd behaved like this to guests of the school. And I bet Elton has a few more staff than my school did.

I agree there can be bad behaviour anywhere of course but yes standards surely should be higher for Etonian’s - when you are paying top dollar for an education and the young people are likely to be immensely privileged. Does make it worse somehow. And more depressing

I agree, it’s far worse if it’s happened on school premises.
I went to Private school and we often had visitors for sporting events etc, we were always polite and wouldn’t have dared behave like this. My DC are at Private now and I would be furious if they did anything of the sort too, as would the school.

I was merely saying that some kids are arseholes no matter what kind of school they went to.

I am sure these children will be very harshly disciplined.

I am really interested how grown up people can call children "twats" by virtue of their school. This is discrimination. But somehow tolerated by society. If someone called children at a rough inner city comprehensive collectively " twats" they would be lambasted and there would be outrage

Does a child have a say what school they go to? There are 250 children in every year in Eton. How many of them actually become Tory Politicians? A couple perhaps?

@duckbilly

I haven't seen stats for Eton specifically but the stats re private education outcomes when it comes to positions of influence is very clear to see.

amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/25/britains-top-jobs-still-in-hands-of-private-school-elite-study-finds

I’d be disappointed if I paid all that money to send my son to Eton, and NF is the best they can muster up for a guest speaker.

As for the attitudes of the students, hardly surprising looking at the likes of the past students we all know and love