To hate the term 'Indie' for private school

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It doesn't make it all cool and edgy .

Awaits a flaming

It would be kind of cool if indie schools had a uniform of DM's and stripy tights, taught a curriculum based around obscure guitar bands and their lyrics and served snakebite and black for lunch.

i have deja vu...

Hullugully and Turniphead, thanks for the explanation. I've only heard people talk about state school or private school, but I always wondered what made a private school "public".

Just remember indie parents

Be reem

It irritates me slightly but not as much as it irritates me hearing local parents talk about their child having passed the scholarship to the grammar school.
It has not been a grammar school for decades and they didn't pass the scholarship, they passed the entrance exam and you wrote an enormous cheque! If it was a grammar MY children would stand a chance of going to it

And yes I'm sure I've read thus thread before...

Unquiet Dad used to talk about it. He also had a chip on his shoulder about hated 'indie' schools.

If you know any Australians you will know they stick ie /y on everything -kindy, barbie. tinnie etc, etc... it's like a baby language and I would put 'Indie' in that category!

alistron1 "It would be kind of cool if indie schools had a uniform of DM's and stripy tights, taught a curriculum based around obscure guitar bands and their lyrics and served snakebite and black for lunch"

Oh stop! Your humour is killing me!

I weren't joking.

I've only ever seen 'indie' written on MN. I've never heard it said in RL.

Alistron - I would love that. I would pay a fiver a week for it! Imagine the superior music knowledge that would be instilled on those young minds, the appreciation of the nuances of I am the Resurrection, music festival etiquette...

I always wonder on these threads what people say instead of 'uni'. Do you always say 'university' or do you say 'college'....I go to university at the moment, so will usually say 'uni' to refer to it quickly, college seems weird because that's where I went last year when I was at an FE college...Sorry for the totally pointless hijack!

YANBU on the 'indie' school, sounds like they're trying to make it sound hip!

Private school sounds "posher" than independent school to me.

Incidentally, I'm Australian. (or is that Aussie?)

YANBU, I agree with you OP.

Yanbu. It's a term usually used by parents who want it to seem cool and edgy.

It's 'posh school' don't ya know

I have never heard anyone talk about "indie" schools, and my DC go to one! It is an MN thing IMO.

If I hear "Indie" I think of Indiana Jones btw

I don't think I would ever say, indie or comp, but depends what you are familiar with?

For me 'uni' is/was varsity
And 'comp' is high school

It's a silly word, yep.

I went to a school that was independent of the state (I'm assuming that's what 'indie' is referring to in this context). It was a GPDST school and I'd generally say it was a private school (although that's a bit of a weird term - I'm now imagining shy and retiring schools) but I suspect it might referred to now as 'indie'. I went to a public school for sixth form (I doubt that would be 'indie' would it?) dh got a scholarship to a minor public school (would now be also 'indie' too?) Our children go to a state run school, but where we live now that is much the norm that I wouldn't be mentioning it (the only non state schools here are highly religious).

To be honest like alistron, 'indie' to me is a type of music and a particular look.