Before you send your kids to public school ...

[pontypridd]

Think about what sort of person you are shaping for this world.

Under this leadership of lies the youth of today will learn that to survive they must shun the truth.

Public speaking and leadership skills are toxic if they lead to the likes of Rees Mogg, Johnson, Cummings and Gove etc

Power needs to removed from these poisonous public school places.

OK. I mean the old boys' network has a lot to answer for, absolutely, but I'm not sure they're poisonous.

I’m sure those parents with children in public schools are withdrawing them immediately on the back of your post. Isn’t it great that people have tie ability to choose how to educate their child. 🙄

Some of the politest, best behaved and kind young men I know are products of private schools. Its not a bad way to spend your money if you have the money.

I went to private school for some of the time, I wouldn't go so far as poisonous but wouldn't send my children.

Lots of people who went think the ethos is

Hopefully they'll teach him not to be a narrow minded twat.

For every Boris there’s a lovely academic somewhere trying to find a cure for dementia or an award winning writer.
School is just school.

Kier Starmer, Blair, Tony Benn, Ed Balls, Clem Attlee, Harriet Harman to name just a few examples, also went to public schools - they produce all sorts. What a ridiculous post, OP.

Hopefully they'll teach him not to be a narrow minded twat.

Or, more likely, a well-spoken, overtly polite, narrow-minded twat.

Sorry OP this has made me laugh a lot!

Agree that Johnson and Rhys-Moggs are gross but not everyone who goes to public school ends up like that.

Private schooling in this country ends up looking so awful to people because it helps to uphold the class system, but trying to make a political statement through where you send your kids to school is just silly.

Most people who educate their kids privately so so because they think the quality of the education might be better. You surely cannot fault people for that.

^do so rather than so so!

I think you're mixing up the chicken and the egg - and I am NOT a big fan of private schools at all.

I think the reason you get the Boris types coming through private schools is because they and their families just are like that. I mean, look at Stanley Johnson swanning off to Greece just before the change in quarantine rules. Unpleasant, entitled, rich people go to private school. Doesn't mean everyone who goes there is unpleasant and entitled, or even rich (though most are).

What are you waffling about? My niece was on the debating club at school and is now a firefighter (lead). Not private school.

I went to private school and I am lovely.

I went to state and I am... not 😈 actually I am really 😇

I don’t think this is fair tbh

I’m sure lots of private school ex pupils are lovely.

I don’t agree with the system as a whole and would rather see it abolished but not because I think every person who comes through it is poisonous.

😂😂😂

Very funny OP. I got a good laugh out of it.

Didn’t Seamus Milne go to Winchester
Nick Clegg went Westminster

I know plenty of public school educated socialists in positions of power. Get a grip.

Hahaha

I would love to send my kids to public school if I had the money. Why wouldn't I want them to approach the world with that unique public school confidence that one doesn't get from being educated with the peasants?

For every Boris there’s a lovely academic somewhere trying to find a cure for dementia or an award winning writer.

That's a nice way to look at it.

wigornian Keir Starmer did not go to public school. He went to Reigate Grammar School after passing his11+. It became an independent school while he was a student there.

Hahahahahaha is this post for real?

I was privately educated. Based on my own experience I would not choose an independent school for my DC. I also loathe the current government with a passion but even I think your post is a bit OTT.

My husband is a public school boy (up north, not as 'posh' as some down here) and he's a wonderful human being with no entitlement issues.

You, however, sound really jealous and bitter.

There was a piece in either Private Eye or Guido Fawkes with a list of privately educated journalists at the Guardian.
The list went on and on.....