to get hacked off at journalists moaning about how oh so hard it is to afford school fees

[emkana]

like in the Daily Telegraph for example today

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AFH51SI3AUOK5QFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/education/ 2008/01/30/faclass130.xml&page=2

i out myslef as an state gal when most of my collegaues own them

arf

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estate
god i am shti

"A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife."

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adn lol at then "helping us out" by payign for their own eduication... im sure htey coudl make dontations to state schools too if they really wanted to

cod

lol at esate gal and them owning them

where did the expression estate come from for modern housing groups..

I love living in estate..tis the only way with kids

in canada its subdivision I think

one really does.,
he is p[articularly nice though.
i dont knwo i htink estates are fab too. kdis play out all day - go to school alone/call on mates wihtout organisation/ you cna walk to a maets house for a piss up

the only funny thign about ours is that we haev a gym at the bottom of it on the main road and so eveyone from school/our road goes there too
i told dh its just like "lassiters".

god you can walk to the gym

Sprogger and Chequers, I read last week that a household income of about 88K put you in the wealthiest 10% of households.

But there was a mumsnet link to a website last year which calculated this and it put the top 10% as earning over about 60K.

The figure varies a lot depending on how you measure it. I haven't seen anything as low as 35K though.

i can and i do.

Can I just point out that ahem not all journalists do this. Quite a lot of us went to state school and send our kids there.

Here's where the 88K figure comes from, it's a Guardian version of the Telegraph article which started this thread:

www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/29/workandcareers.personalfinancenews

lol lassiters

it is

all we need is blokey whatshisname

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Paul Robinson

(oh god why do I know such crap)

Oh god I loved the homework at the pine scrubbed table and the aga - I am SUCH a cliche, it's frightening.

Agree with PPH. Moaning and whining is boring, bad article, if you don't want to send your kids to private school don't, if you do then just get on with it.

cos you had a proper education like me, watching Neighbours every day for 10 years

Millfield and Sedbergh are for thick children. Everyone knows that so it's not surprising if the parents of the children don't come over very well.

Obviously it's an article that would appeal to Telegraph readers. Papers print what readers want to read.

My siblings and I went to privtae school with some sacrifice on the part of our parents and our nine children are all in private schools but it's impossible to expect sympathy for the sacrifices of it. It's like people how lost on in the Lloyd's fiasco. People just enjoy the rich having problems.

yes xenia but the rich's problems eg not being able to afford private education are in a completely different league from poor people's problems eg freezing to death because you can't afford heating or stealing because you can't afford food for your children

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Millfield also for talented sports people though. They have a scholarship - the children in the article -so they can be trained and have coaching and develop this swimming skill they have. I have no problem with that.

I wonder if the parents swim. They don't look like swimmers do they?

India Knight wrote a column about this I remember. Saying how her professional friends in central London were annoyed at the standard of state schools they went to, and how they were equally annoyed that they couldn't afford the alternative - and didn't want the alternative either.