To think it’s hard for a middle class child to attend a working class school?

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I mean a predominantly working class state school in a deprived area like an ex mining town. Where the child is one of the only middle class ones and gets bullied for being different or posh.

Must be ghastly having to mix with the thick plebs.

Don’t be ridiculous.
Address the bullying with the school.

The OP was referring to the ‘middle class’ child being bullied, not suggesting that the middle class child will find it difficult mixing with working class people FFS.
Surely most state schools are a mixed bag anyway?

Might they get wotsit crumbs wiped on them?

The child will not be the only middle class child there trust me.

Why am I thinking of Will McKenzie of The Inbetweeners?

Not so much being bullied for being 'middle class', rather for being a dweeb?

I imagine this being more of an issue for the parents than the child. Whether children are working class, middle class or otherwise they tend to like and enjoy the same kind of things.

I’d say the school has a behaviour management issue rather than it being Working Class v Middle Class.

Primary school children don’t care. Only some of the parents do

And no high school only has one non-working class child

Make sure you send her with Dairylea dunkers and a penquin bar for lunch and she will be fine.

Nothing to do with class. All to do with personalities and the bullying policy and actions of the school.

I think we don't use 'thick plebs' anymore.

Language of choice is 'unintelligent poors' nowadays.

HTH 😆

It’s not great if your face doesn’t fit for whatever reason. Most humans prefer to be among broadly like minded others.

Anyone going to a school where they feel out of place and get bullied is going to find it difficult. I don’t think most middle class children would be in that position in most schools that are majority working class.

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I got bullied miserably for being posh and academic (definitely not, let middle at best) but I'd have also been bullied for being poor, dumb or spotty so I'm not sure it's representative. I wonder if the kids from tougher backgrounds have less self confidence and are more likely to bully though to deflect from themselves

Only my experience but I went from a private primary in a very posh area to a state comprehensive in a very not posh area and had no issues.

Had a lot more issues being at the posh private primary having parents who were from working class backgrounds (much snobbery from other kids and parents).

It’s much harder being a working class child in a working class school.

Probably the marker of being middle class is having been to university and having books around the house. So the middle class kid already has a massive head start on resources, learning behaviours, and aspirations.

Depends. If they joined at the same time as the rest of their class (ie in Reception or Y7), then I can't imagine they would be identified as 'different'.

If they joined midway through the year, or as a transfer from another school, then yes, it could be tricky. But because they're the new kid, not because they present as middle class.

Why do you ask OP?

Only if they are particularly precocious, or like to boast about expensive gadgets and luxury holidays.

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Had years of being dubbed “posh” at my comp then went to university and socialised with the public school set then I wasn’t posh enough ! you can’t win in the middle!

Why does being middle class mean that they’ll have expensive gadgets or luxury holidays?

Wow. What awful prejudice.

No excuse for bullying, if that's what's happening (OP very vague), but suggest you do a bit of research on those "ex mining towns" and what happened to them.