To think that ALL state schools don't just produce teenage pregnancies, but valuable members of society?

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To think that ALL state schools don't just produce teenage pregnancies, but valuable members of society?

Funny seeing some threads, as I remember going to my godmothers DS picnic & nursery sports day, and this seemed to be the view of one parent.

It was in Hampshire though...

I just laughed.

And Lady what makes you think there is a correlation between attending a state school and despising those that didn't? It seems to me reading your comments that it's the other way round if anything :)

Believing positively that an excellent comprehensive school (and I know full well they are not all excellent!) will equip anyone with an excellent education, is not the same thing as despising public schools!

My children do go to state schools, yes, and they always will, because even if I could afford to send them to private schools, or they could achieve a scholarship place, I wouldn't do it. Why? Because I don't believe that they would do better academically or socially in a private school. In fact, I think they will probably gain more socially in a state school because they'll meet a wider range of other children.
But I have friends who think differently, as well as friends who went to private schools, and don't despise them in the least!!! I don't despise them because they would never make ill informed and bigoted comments about young working class teenagers.

Lady, I started off in a private secondary school (I won a scholarship, very bright but the child of those awful poor people that you seem to despise so much) and hated every judgemental awful minute of if.

I completed my education in the state sector and achieved better grades than all my friends who remained in their fancy private school.

Kind of kills your argument doesn't it?

LOTM - you are not a lady at all.

I've seen you and your ill-conceived prejudices on other threads.

This whole thread is in poor taste.

Well we can't all be "state comp" apologists as was proven on a thread a few days ago. Some people don't favour state schools, and looking at statistics (without the odd one popping up and sharing their amazing grades) who can blame them?

Good for you who did so amazingly well, well done.

I don't want my dc going to a state school, not just because of the grades, but because the world of networking is opened up in a different way through private education.

Lady I am NOT playing the game with you thankyou very much all the same.

Or is it just public schoolboys who get up to that sort of thing? Can just picture Cameron Osborne and Clegg ....

what a weird op

I just figured if your mouth wasn't full of marbles...

2031....The Times...

LOTM's son Tarquin

Engaged to Caroline..

Eldest daughter of William and Catherine of Wales..

That's networking for you.

As if I'd pick a name as hideous as Tarquin

Apart from that, spot on.

PMSL @wook

Doors to manual.....

LOTM isn't as posh as she thinks she is...

Reeling, would you like to define "posh"?

I'm sure you know the true meaning and therefore know it can't be applied.

Private education doesn't mean someone is well spoken and of money. Although, I'm sure you've been taught that.

I'll fill you in, in that case.

P.O.S.H

Port side out, starboard home; it is in fact an abbreviation.

Used for the upper classes sailing by boat, and their preference of daylight.

As you were. I'm off to bed

LadyOfTheManor Sun 20-Feb-11 20:43:14
"I just figured if your mouth wasn't full of marbles..."

Eh?

Surely you mean " I just figured if your mouth weren't full of marbles...

If you're going to troll try and be funny, at least do it well.

You aspire to your son marrying William and Kate's daughter?!

Wow! What a tragic aspiration.

My aspirations for my sons are somewhat higher, but that's shitty state schools for you.

And, getting back to the original point:

Tamara Beckwith...

from Cheltenham Ladies College... teenage mum at 16.

I don't judge her.

I am tres posh as it 'appens..

The true meaning being privatley educated dont'cha know.

And with a degree of manners and a masters in networking.

Oh and good grammer.

It's grammar reeling!

"I'll fill you in, in that case.

P.O.S.H

Port side out, starboard home; it is in fact an abbreviation.

Used for the upper classes sailing by boat, and their preference of daylight."

Actually, LOTM, that's a common myth, but is not etymologically correct. The OED has it first recorded in 1890 as a dandy. May have also been thieves cant for money.

only if they are grammar schools

Lol Tolalola, this private education really isn't up to much is it?

Oh dear - LOTM = the new DP.
One to avoid then.

Lady said earlier:

"Well I was different, I valued their opinion and was terrified of not finishing school and going on to university."

I too was terrified of not finishing school and of not going to university becuase of the values my mother instilled in me. But I am from a single parent family with very little money and I went to a very run of the mill state school.

I'm now a solicitor at a top firm. Do people honestly think that the only families who instill values and the importance of education are those who can pay school fees?!

Have a

CaptainNancy....

Thank goodness someone else can see it too. [phew]

And sorry Knitting..yes it is grammar.