to think many parents who send their children to the lower quality independent schools are so pretentious it is cringeworthy?

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Is it due to insecurity? Because I have found the seriously loaded/titled folk are not like that at all.

OP you are pathetic. If you are not a troll you would get your arse back on here and explain yourself.....

Oh and .... ah i feel better now

Golly indeed!

squared

So, to summarise, Xenia is saying that you are lazy if you don't wor hard to send your DC to a Private school so that they talk proper like
And you are saying that unless you can afford Eton/Harrow you are a pretentious Oik with ideas above your station?

If that is the case then you are both mad as a box of frogs.

As this thread is going nowhere quick i thought i may trash it and ask (very nicely) if anyone would consider reading my thread on Childrens Health as no one has replyed and i could do with a helping hand?

ty x

Lizzy, I'm glad I didn't have something in my mouth then as you just made me lol

Is this a lower quality pretentious biscuit or a Duchy's original? That's the real question.

I've posted about this before, but where we live now the local independents are pretty poor. Have no idea about the pretensions, or lack of, of those who do send their children to them. For us, the independent was the default option if the state school was terrible, but it isn't. The quality of teaching and the buildings are superior.

But consider, if the local state school is poor then a "lower quality independent" could well be an attractive and only option.

Well, in a way biscuit has a bit of a point. It's not yer genuine aristocracy who make a fuss - they couldn't give a flying fuck what car you've got or what accent you have. It's the social climbers on the rungs way below them who feel the need to put other people down, or judge people for using the 'wrong' fork or whatever.

Pop the link on steph

Cornsilk, I think it looks like either a Jammie Dodger or one of those biscuits with the jammie dodger filling and vanilla cream

I wouldn't dream of commenting on whether or not the biscuit was U or Non U however, I suppose that depends on whether you're eating it with a napkin or a serviette

Fibilou - bit of kitchen towel, surely??

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i hope this works!!! Thank you !

Bloody hell. I neaver cease to amaze myself!

Quilted or Value ? One does find the quilted a bit Nouveau, what what ?

How about if you just let the crumbs fall on the floor as the labs/corgis will have em anyway?

Ok I clarify.

Where I live is seriously feudal. There are what I will call high quality independent schools where the results are amazing, children delightful, parents friendly etc.

Then there is the down the road small independent school full of unbelievably pretentious people who speak in loud voices in a one upmanship style, each vying to outbid each other on just about everything, with buffoon like children.

As a lot of Mners are from London and this area is not, may be it does not apply any where else!

I must be drunker than I thought....this thread makes no sense!! I'm going to wander in a confused state to another post [hic]

"delightful children" "buffoon like children"

Do you live in an Enid Blyton novel ?

op; yanbu

insecurity probably

Lizzy, we had to get rid of the corgis as the lions kept eating them when the keeper forgot to feed them

actually I know what you're talking about barrel..
my dc go to the state junior school in a very naice middle class rural town.
They didn't go to the infants but I gather a lot of parents educate at the infants and then take them out to send to one of the many million of indies.
Why this is, I haven't a clue, the junior school is excellent with great results,it also has good facilities.
I know some parents with privately educated dc and they are literally killing themselves to pay for it.
Why?
I suggested to one recently when she couldn't pay the fees she should withdraw and send them to the juniors.
She wouldn't hear of it.
As she had no definite reason for paying for their education in the first place, I can only think it's pretensions.

oh wind yer neck in.what a dumb post

try harder

go mosey to feeding threads those burds can flame and love a good scrap.i suggest you tell them breast is best.watch them implode and stretch hyperbole to the limit

I live in Lancashire and it is not really like that here tbh (but we do have an excellent Grammar, oops!).

So, you are opposed to Private for Privates sake.

Is the High Quality school with the delightful children and parents prohibitively expensive then?