To think that where WE went to school is irrelevent to what school DD goes to?

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crikey ! well done you...

I would name and shame

how horrible - doesn't give much chance to people who are trying to improve themselves does it?

Some schools want to ensure that their pupils are from a range of backgrounds. It's possible this was their goal?

yes, name them !!

LOL! She's probably thinking they don't want a stroppy parent like you sending a chld to their school!

I cannot for the life of me understand why she wanted to know that - what possible reason could she have and what's to stop you from lying and saying you went to Cheltenham Ladies College.

Please please please please please

name and shame

Good for you!

"suitable for the school" FGS

And discovering whether someone was the child of an ex-pupil could be covered by a small entry on the application form. Perhaps 'any connection with the school' - which would cover all eventualities, like being a friend of a teacher or the such like.

YANBU. I'd have told her where to shove it too.

I think that's hilarious! Outrageous, but very very funny as well in a hideous kind of way. Snobby schools don't usually let the mask slip quite that badly.

Though we were visiting my dc's cousin at her smart boarding school when dd1 was in about Y5, and cousin's housemistress asked where dd1 went to school. Dd1 brightly answered: "Hackney.". I wish I could have bottled the look the housemistress gave her, it was priceless.

Their loss.

Oh my God

It WAS Cheltenham Ladies College wasn't it?

Oh yes, and please do name.

It reminds me of smart middle-aged ladies from the county set who, when introduced to someone they don't know cannot start a sensible conversation until they've established that one of them shared a dorm with the other one's 2nd cousin at St Mary's Wantage in 1953. Once they've established that, they're happy.

Always makes me hoot.

arf ! my cousin is head of marketing at her dc's prep school - marketing if you please !

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well, no - is from little ones up to 13 I think...before they go on to a public school

YANBU.

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but still, marketing...

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frogs post so made me want to be posh.

yabu, how else would they keep the nouveau riche out?

well my old school has a waiting list but if you are a legacy applicant and your father or brother went there you are guarenteed admission so that could be a possible reason to ask where you went to school.