Hey, Am I being unreasonable to think that my older sisters are acting a bit spoilt and ungrateful for their privileged private education (which they now SHUN, being both rich, champagne socialists that hate anything 'privileged')?
My own beliefs are very different from theirs. They were both - in my opinion - extremely LUCKY and PRIVILEGED to be able to go to an expensive private school. I had different circumstances, being younger than they are, and went to the local state school. I didn't love my state education and lonnnged to be able to go to boarding school like theirs but made the most of it anyway.
I'm now pregnant, and neither of them have any children. Naturally the conversation crops up about what type of parent I'm going to be and what type of education I think is best further on down the line for my child (even if I can never afford it!). I happen to believe that a private education WOULD be really good, with so many opportunities for sport, music, drama, art, school trips and loads of extracurricular stuff (not to mention the upwardly-mobile friends) that THEY had, which I did not have. Instead I had a load of underachieving, 'problem' social cases in my school which I believe held me back from achieving and competing, which may explain my views on education.
But now all they do (unprovoked usually) is whinge and moan about how full of 'toffs' and 'spoilt tw*ts' boarding schools are. And I think, "But hang on a minute! Aren't YOU one of those too?!" I think they are being a bit hypocritical, given that they went to one of these schools too and sometimes behave a bit, well, spoilt! And not just that, also - to me anyway - they appear a bit ungrateful for the privileged education they had! Just my opinion anyway! What do you think? Can I reason with them?