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.

A classmate of DS went to Harrow - a really lovely lad and both parents were very nice people too. Not stuck up, snotty, arrogant, Aristos... just ordinary, nice people.

They are people you know...

I want my children to cherish a love of learning, and to practice religious inclusivity.
The only decent state school around here is fundamentalist catholic. So its either that, a shithole of a school where kids get bullied for wanting to learn, or private. Or moving away and spend money on house and commute than private education costs.
What a hard choice.

WaxOnFeckOff

Ceir/Keir: ...I wasn’t being serious!

I’ll definitely be sending mine to public school. I want to give them the best education possible and access to a good network, extracurricular activities etc. Quite frankly I’d sooner they turned out like JRM (who I fundamentally dislike) than Corbyn any day of the week.

Dear OP

DH, with a brain the size of a planet, went to the local comp, then Oxbridge. I went private, grammar public.

Our DC were sent to elite London day schools. Because: of specialist teaching from age 8: specialist classics, mathematics, science, MFL, Hums. The issue in education isn't about wanky elitism. It is about the quality of specialist teaching and educational opportunity.

Ours were bright and needed that. They had friends who needed a more nurturing environment. Sometimes due to a neuro-developmental disability. It isn't available in a one size fits all comp. Even the huge ones with resources aren't always great. They stream, pigeonhole and set people apart.

I am a zillion times summer than DH. He still slightly resents the fact that his comp taught no classics and he had to catch up at Oxford. He wanted different for his bairns and is the most decent and moral human being anyone may wish to meet.

Society has lost itself in the holy grail of qualifications over education.

lol lol lol I believe Jeremy Corbyn was privately educated.

Thought it was grammar school, still it wasn’t exactly Bash Street...

@wigornian

WaxOnFeckOff

Ceir/Keir: ...I wasn’t being serious!

No worries :)

@LesLavandes. In a way I didn't really want to like them which is a terrible thing to say i know, but they won me over and were a credit to their parents and/or their school system.

The bit that really got me was when they had the careers night and all the old boys were there to help out the kids with opportunities. That was the real privilege imo. My DC are bright and doing well but will never have any of that advantage :(

Yay yay.
I’ll do that and take my dcs out of a school where they are finally happy and not anxious.
Because that will help them and the society at large a hell of a lot to have two adults with MH issues and wo having really he’d their potential instead

Just in case you haven’t noticed, private schools come in all shape and form. Not all of them are like Eton. Some of them actually cater for disabilities in a way public school can’t.
But yay. Let’s take them all out.

Just checked, it was Haberdashers' Adams, and its a grammar, apologies.

Kier Starmer was a council estate kid, I doubt his parents could afford public school.

No sign of the op. As pp have said, I think this is a wind up.
Where’s BertramRussell, by the way? I havn’t seen her for ages and she always took part in pro/anti private school threads.

most hilarious post I have seen on here! Ridiculous!

Is this post for real? So Are you saying - because the current government, that you dislike, went to private school, then no one should go ... ???
What about the those from parties you do support - don’t you think they have privately educated people in them too??

Pretty sure making a generalisation about a group of people based on their education is as bad as making generalisations of any other group. I.e religion, country etc ...

Do not tar everyone from a ‘group’ the same based on your views of a few ..

Like every private school is like Eton. A bit like each state school is different so is every private school. Ours churns out lots of doctors, engineers etc. I am sure for every JRM there are 100 nice kids in private schools, same as there are plenty of kids that are nice in state school with the odd exception.

You sound incredibly bitter.

Have this strange deja-vu that this exact thread has been written before??

I went to private school and I'm lovely. I'm also cabin crew so not in a narrow minded posh job... You sound really bitter, are you ok hun?

CBA reading the thread and yawning at the inevitable pages of 'My sister went to private school and now she's a toilet cleaner' and 'I know this guy who went to state school and now he owns a multi billion empire'. Or worse 'All the people I know who went to state school did just as well as or better than all the people I know who went to private school'. Alrighty then. Because education is just exam results and private school pupils are this way and state school pupils are that way. BORING.

Have this strange deja-vu that this exact thread has been written before??

SO. MANY. TIMES.

But they aren’t horrible people because they went to private school.

They’re horrible people because they’re horrible people.

The disparity in provision between the state and private sector during the crisis - and the inevitable deepening inequality that will cause - has actually made me more determined to privately educate my child when he gets to school age, not less.

It's okay it's not personal but it's seems most of mnet misspells it and now I've noticed I can't unsee it. Is it the old I before E thing?
I know. It drives me witless too. There is a building firm called Kier maybe people get confused. Anyway he's named after Keir Hardie.
Keir Keir

Dp went to public school (one of the southern posh kind)

I am from what was once voted the worse council estate in Britain.

Neither of us was fussed about sending dc to public let alone private school

However having got 2 dc with SENs that the state sector werent prepared to teach and were bullied not only by their fellow pupils but also the teachers then spending money on a private education for them became a priority.

I think if your child is around average to quite academic then a state education is good and your child will do well.

At the 2 ends of the scale state education can’t cope and these children miss out.

One particular one we did seriously look at as it seemed to be ideal for Ds but we at the time just didn’t have the money.

Your post is so eloquent and well argued, I'll draw my children out immediately 😂😂😂😂😂

Hmm . . . the op has a bit of a point.

Some of them imbue a kind of “king of the world” arrogance. We could do with less of that.

DH went to a public school though and is nothing like that.

@derxa

It's okay it's not personal but it's seems most of mnet misspells it and now I've noticed I can't unsee it. Is it the old I before E thing? I know. It drives me witless too. There is a building firm called Kier maybe people get confused. Anyway he's named after Keir Hardie. Keir Keir

You don't know how many times I've seen Kier vans and want to chase after them with a sharpie and fix it! :o