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.

Just also be careful before you send your child to a state school. They churn out rude slobs who wear their trousers so low you can see their pants. They’ll never amount to anything and pretty poisonous

Beware having a child like that and immediately withdraw them and make other arrangements if your child happens to be at a state school.

My STBEXH went to public school. He’s a test who thinks highly of himself, is selfish, entitled, racist and a general imo head. All of his school friends fit into the same cat shirt more or less: all obnoxious and out for themselves. I have 4 sons, they all go to a comprehensive. They will NOT turn out like the tulips that are running the country.

Test... cat shirts...tulips...? I see your autocorrect went to the same school as mine 😆

Private schools and public schools aren't the same thing.

I think the op is silly though.

Oops! Prat.... category..... you get the gist. Sent too soon 😬

This would be funny if it wasn't quite so offensive.

I went to public school - the only decent thing my dumpster fire parents ever did. They only did it because they were raging narcissists and wanted everyone to think how wonderful they were.

If I had children I would want them to go to public school. I spent half of my last year in a comprehensive and it was hell. I was basically left to my own devices and as a naturally lazy little git did sod all work those 6 months.

It's just as well my DS2 can take a bit of baiting. Primary school 50/50 kids from naice new build estate and notorious council estate. We live in new build so therefore he is posh boy at school despite DH and I both coming from a similar council estate background.

Then for High School he went to a very academic school in a well to do area and was then taken as an exotic rough boy for having been to X primary (he went out of catchment so was the only child from x primary). Then onto Uni and now deemed posh boy for having been at that high school as it ranks 00s above that of his flatmates (also seen as a failure by them as surely should be at St Andrews....

He just laughs it off as going up and down the posh rankings when he is just "normal"

You don't know how many times I've seen Kier vans and want to chase after them with a sharpie and fix it!
Apparently Kier firm was started by Olaf Kier a Dane. He didn't know the confusion he would create.

Paris14eme that kind of begs the question of why you married him..?

Sorry not read the (f!) thread because you’re coming across as a twat but have you counted the number of people who have gone to public school versus those in parliament? Hmmm?

Annoying when people justify private education in terms of freedom of choice. Its only a choice if you can afford it! I went to one and I really don't see how anyone can morally justify them.

What about all the public school kids who don't go into Politics or anything remotely related.
Even I know one and I'm wc and not used to mixing in those circles.

Annoying when people justify private education in terms of freedom of choice. Its only a choice if you can afford it! I went to one and I really don't see how anyone can morally justify them

I am assuming that if you had children then they were in the average to reasonably bright category and your children actually received an education in the state system.

What choice did we have with 2 dc with SENs.

No we couldn’t really afford it but there again we couldn’t leave dc to fester in the state system. The price to pay would have been too high.

My DH went to a public/private/independent/whatever-it-was boarding school and he is utterly lovely; I, on the other hand, went to the local comp and am utterly horrible.

Op I went to a low ranking comp and I met my DH who went to a well known public school at university. He is the nicest kindest person I have ever met.

The only private school we access is independent SEN school so I'm not really in that league.

But I disliked the labour manifesto to get rid of the private school sector.

Do we really want a country where we race to the bottom?

A lot of private schools churn out pretty normal balanced humans and the likes of Eton churn out some extraordinary humans. Theres good and bad in all walks of life, but I do wish we saw more none private school boys in our parliament.

Some children in state schools are cocky/arrogant enough to swagger that the rules don't apply to them, and so are some in private/public schools. The difference lies in parental attitudes.

If you are not paying for education and don't value it, then you may not be bothered by the stream of detentions and negative comments sent home.

If you are spending £15k a year for little Dorrit to be taught, then little Dorrit is in for a serious talking to. If little Dorrit is so bright as to have won a big scholarship, Dorrit is likely to succeed regardless.

And because anyone spending £15k+ pa on education out of taxed income is earning quite a lot of money, then it is unlikely that the parents are totally dim.

I think we are blaming the wrong people here. Isn't the problem that state education isn't producing enough confident articulate people who want to lead the country and have the brains to do it?

Instead of blaming the system that is producing folk who believe they are the best thing since sliced bread, we should be supporting a state system that fills DC with self esteem, self worth and the skills to lead a country.

WaxOn, I do agree, but in my experience of both private and state education, I would say that the state system teachers thought they were teaching their students to work in Cowtown, not in California. There was no aspiration to do better. For example, ICT courses taught how to operate MS Office... rather than attempting to teach coding and analysis to write a better version of Office. It was deeply frustrating.

Exactly XingMing. But we can't sit and complain about private schools producing all the leaders without acknowledging that it's not the private schools that are at fault.