to be irked when a private school kid tells mine how MUCH better her school is...

[BernardsCat]

grr
And it aint necesarily so

well, it certainly isn't better at teaching good manners, that's for sure

Thats just bad manners but you get that in all schools.

i did want to say
" well some of us dont NEED PRivate education now do fuck off"

but i didnt.

quite

How old? That has to have come from the parents doesn't it? Either theirs or a via a friend's parents

Oh God (cringe) I remember doing that once when I was a precocious little shit about ten.

If it's any consolation, this child will one day want to curl his toes and weep with embarrassment every time he recalls it.

hmm

primary.

Mum is lovely, would be mortified.

I would also suspect it comes from parents.

Its rude and ill mannered and i'd have been tempted to reply 'its a shame that you're lovely school isn't teaching you to be polite'.

I don't think it has to come from the parents, could easily have been picked up at school.

I think the loss of manners would be lost on her tbh.
but hey it made my hackles rise.

Yes, but picked at school after it being said by someone else's parents to their child? Passed on like a virus

like swine flu.

they haev that at posh schools.

Well it depends what they meant by better. Most kids think their school is better than the next. It is positively encouraged at sports meetings. I take Y6s to football and netballand hear it all the time. Those comments could just as easily have come from a state school child.

Just tell your DC that this child couldn't possibly know as they aren't at their school.

Unless the comment ended with 'because my parents pay for it'.

Yes it is brand loyalty isnt it.
That is what I mean.

Yes, Tinker, but at least it lets lovely mum off the hook.

Friend takes another little boy to school sometimes (he's 6) and he constantly asks what make/brand everything is and compares it unfavourably to brands/makes his parents own.

Such a delightful trait in a small child but one undoubtedly picked up from home.

could easily have been from school.
I have been in schools (well, one school, a single sex selective school) where students confidently informed me theirs was the best school around.

I think it's most likely come from the school rather than the parents. The private schools that I went to made a big deal of how lucky we were to be there, and what a shame it was for kids who didn't get to go to a private school like ours and that they wouldn't do as well in life (the teachers literally said that... every day - in three different private schools). For sixth form I went to the local comp 6th form. And was shocked to find that there were much cleverer young people there who were better educated than me. Ah well, I lived and learnt! My parents still don't approve of the fact I insisted on the comp though - they reckon it 'ruined my speaking voice'.

My DD confidently informs everybody that her school is the best school around - and she just goes to the local state school.

It probably is a better school though.

ha ha at "My parents still don't approve of the fact I insisted on the comp though - they reckon it 'ruined my speaking voice'"

agree it probably comes from the school.

My private school did like to remind you how wonderful the whole thing was. I suppose in the hope that I would go home and tell my parents, making them think the money was well worth it.

Yep,I agree, my kids are regularly told their school is amazing and that they are lucky to have the opportunity. Luckily,we agree.

However, my point was that this isn't a private school thing as it happens in most state schools too, certainly by the age 10.

If you were judging the schools and their results, youd say not tbh.

Biscuits why on earth would that be the case?