ooooh. a posh kids vs commoner types dispute!

[DameHermione]

DD does tennis. The courts belong to the posh public school and the tennis club rents them for lessons/games etc as the town doesn't have courts for us commoners.

DD has just phoned me to tell me the posh kids are refusing to leave and the teacher is taking them on.

I hope it doesn't end in fisticuffs.

I know i'm not unreasonable at all but as we all love a private vs state controversy i decided this would be the ideak place for it.

Off you go.......

It often means that your parents think you're posh, too!

If the teacher being ignored they need a ticking off from their school for lack of respect. Any update? I bet they have trundled off court now..

I agree with Sairygamp.

No word. They are either still fighting, lying around bleeding or one side has given in.

Actually private school does mean often that you are posh. not always, by any means - there are several private schools around our way and we all know exactly which ones are for those parents who think they're 'posh', social spirallers, I believe we called them in Sociology and the ones which are actually used by academics and 'old money.

My DCs are at private school, and I've got a jacuzzi in the garden and brown leather sofas, so I am living proof that private does not equate to posh.

my daughter school is full of kids who thinkt hey are posh and tbh they are a pain in the arse they are not posh just rude and rich , what makes a posh person anyway ?

I wonder if there will be posh swearing?

'Drat! You imbeciles simply cannot have our court or I'll...I'll...I'll report you to the council!'

This thread is bringing back painful memories of my school (commoners), which sold off our playing field to a nearish posh school. They used to bus in their posh boys for games (probably polo or something incomprehensibly posh like that) and we had to walk sadly round it a few times a day getting from one falling down school building to another. I never once set foot in the field which had huge fencing erected around it - think apartheid wall.

class war people.

I think the problem would be if they had a sense of more 'entitlement' to the tennis court and lacked respect for teacher from 'common' school. [Lot of assumptions I know!].

define posh
define commoner.

i'll gladly be called defensive btw

I think

snotty = poshy

rough = commoner

Not sure about schooling, I'll give it some serious thought and get back to you all.

oo mary you are a lot cleverer than I am and squillion s is a fab word

Posh - blazer and stuff
Common- polo shirt and sweatshirt

Actually, it doesn't.

banditqueen.
I think your anger is misdirected. Blame the crap LEA who sold off your playing field not the people who bought it.

sunflower, do you mean in genera clothingl or school uniform?

My common kid has a blazer. Its a bit crap though.

AIBU to think my kids can play tennis wherever they fuckin well wants to as they is harder than them posho's and deprived and all that.

err school uniform!

Although just my kid doing tennis lessons sort of negates my common deprived chippy argument at bit.

My DS goes to secondary, but wears a blazer and tie.

Urgh.
I hate people bragging about their kids being 'common.'

Does she play violin or recorder op?