that people should not look down their noses at people.........

[2shoesonanegghunt]

because they are in the building trade
"Obviously if it will be joining their father's painting business then the schools don't count so much."
to quote one post
ffs so you don't need maths/english ict when running a painting business
my dh and bil are both painters and highly inteligent. dh went to a grammer school
rant over

don't know context of the post mentioned in op but sounds more like schools don't count so much if you are going to join the family business, whatever the family business may be.

Which is true enough in many ways.

of course it still matters if you want to get a trade you still need an education. so schools are important.

I didn't see the context 2shoes but from what you've quoted couldn't this simply mean in terms of getting work when you leave school, if you're all set up to join your dad's business which is already there for you (whatever that business may be) then you may not need to follow the qualifications route so strictly?

Like pointy says.

i think it was more the "painting business" that pissed me off
I have seen and heard this so much as if because you are in a manual trade you must be thick

You're probably over-sensitive to it though due to family connections. Or too much time on mn!

no I am not over sensitive just get fed up with snobs

Greensleeves ? Re: 'wanky arts degree'. Was being facetious.

Glad I did it and love my job, even if it's not very lucrative. But will certainly not stand in dd's way if she wants to do something more practical.

i loved poncing about at uni - had great fun, meet great mates, worked hard, so thoroughly recommend it

It was my comment in the quote. It was on a thread about choosing schools. I was saying if you have an end point like want them to be a private banker or whatever then choosing an appropriate pre school etc does have an impact on the ease of ability to reach that end point. I then said if the plan is they leave school at 16 to enter the family painting business then it may not be so important they're at a school where most pupils get AAA and many go to Oxbridge. I stand by that comment. Their accent can matter more too depending on the career path they might follow too. Accent might not matter at all in some jobs but it will in others so again you're planning ahead all of us trying to do our best for our children.

Not unreasonable at all.

My dh wishes that he had trained as a builder, I bet we would be much richer if he had.

Round here it's the builders, joiners etc. who can afford to put their kids through private schools, especially if they have more than 2 kids.

I really wish I'd learned a trade instead of following academic route.

It cuts both ways though. There’s nothing more boring than listening to someone in a trade spouting off about how anyone who has an office-based job “Just sits at a computer” or “Pushes paper around” and that we don’t know what real work is…

How about we all respect each other’s jobs a bit more?