To feel sick at the sight of posh kids dressed as tramps?

[musicalmum43]

My nieces go to posh private schools (same school as the Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice), and one of them posted on FB photos of a day they had spent at school dressed as tramps - they made a shelter in the classroom (inside obviously in case they got cold!) and one of them had drawn a beard on herself. It all looked great fun and jolly hockeysticks, but I think they could have got the girls down to the local Salvation Army shelter to hand out some soup or clean a hostel or something instead. I know going to a private school is because the parents are terrified their girls won't cope in the rough inner city that is Windsor (!!!!) but this level of role play is sick making. What on earth did they get out of this, except to have great larks, what ho!! I could just hear their posh voices chirping away!!

i still want to know what are posh kids?

I'm a decent person so don't be scared but a few googles, a few clicks on FB and I have found a raft of 'posh' girls at your neice's school who have no privacy settings on their homepages.

I don't have time (or inclination, honestly!) to trawl them but I'm sure I could find those 'tramp' pictures soon enough.

Not wishing to have a go OP, and I'm sure nobody here is going to stalk your family, but did you think of that at all before posting, or is it ok to invade children's privacy if they're 'posh'.

Jealousy is a terrible thing you know. Having the hump about someone else's money doesn't make you richer. I should know, I've been envious of millionaires for years

erm a posh kid in one what goes to a posh school innit

IS one not in one

It sounds in bad taste to me.

I really think this wasn't some attempt to right the wrongs of the world and get 'fortunate' kids to empathise with the less fortunate. It just sounds like a teacher trying to put a book or something into context for their pupils. We used to do it when I was at a 'posh' school, and as a teacher I do similar for my children now. Admittedly, I don't teach in a posh school so I probably have less resources, but the theory is the same! I really think this is being massively overblown, and I genuinely think it is because of the whole reverse snobbery towards those in private education. WOuld we be getting so cross if a load of my smelly little blighters had been dressing up as polo players?!

This is getting ridiculous.

The social standing of the children, ie the parents is relevant when you are dressing up as a homeless person, of course it bloody is.

At best, it's patronising.

LeQueen, your analogy of poor kids dressing up as polo players doesn't work at all. Polo players tend not to be disadvantaged in the same way as the homeless.

(BTW, I put something on the other thread for you )

Had you been a child at a private school during the war and completed that exercise, it would have been just as distasteful.

It's the fact that it was an exploration of history, not social strata which makes it acceptable.

This looks like a new spin on the neverending MN debate of state v private .

Does private = posh? My ds is at private school so I guess that makes me posh. Please don't tell anyone I'm a single mum or else they may ask my son to leave his school .

I fail to see how on earth you can tell the content of a lesson from a picture on fb and that combined with the massive chips you clearly have on your shoulders about your brother makes me think YABCompltelyU.

Can we please just forget the putative chip on the OPs shoulders. If it was an attempt to play at being homeless peoplem it is in appalling bad taste and patronising.

Oh, no Tethersend, that was me...mea culpa. Mildy tongue in cheek, perhaps I should have put a next to it.

I'm sure I saw on the news a while back a school in London being lauded for getting their pupils to dress up as evacuees and pretend to be evacuated...I don't see the difference. Is it that the kids were smiling and said they were enjoying it? Most kids would do this I think, it isn't a sign of insensitivity. Early teenagers are on the whole too young for real deep empathy, they will undertand what they are being taught but that won't stop them enjoying a fun lesson out of the norm.

TBH, this sort of activity is what teachers are encouraged to do now.

I know mrs C and what a total waste of time it is.

Gah. Wasn't you.

Sorry! Was to MrsC.

I only have eyes for you, obviously LeQ

The other thread was one about... err... being academic or something. Basically, the thread that this is about to turn into.

Anyway, it refers to the bible of academic prowess, Viz

Meant to add, taking pupils to soup kitchens etc would be highly difficult to arrange because of various red tape etc. I can also imagine the outrage if our children were taken to one and then sworn at or whateevr by a homeless person..the cries of 'they are too young for this', schools oughtn't to get involved in this kind of thing etc etc'. These children aren't any different because they go to a fee paying school, they are trying things out in a safe space. You only think the activity is patronising because of their context, they still have to be taught about these things.

Of course private school kids are just selfish shits.
They gain all their understanding of the world entirely through school. They have no family, friends or interaction with any other social group so they are all the same.
When my two get home I put them in a box and only throw in canapes and let them look at pictures of the Queen.
They are not allowed to talk to their brother as he is at state school and may contaminate them.
DS1 only volunteers so that he can mock disabled people.
I sentthem there because I am afraid of sending them to a state school as they may break out in hives or something.

Pagwatch

throwing in canapes

tee hee

Ooops, MrsC

The difference is that there are currently no evacuees (not active ones IYSWIM). There are homeless people.

This makes it a very different activity; as I said, were pupils in a private school in 1941 dressing up as evacuees then that would have been just as distasteful.

Exactly pag. We don't even know what the point of the dressing up was yet the leap is to condemn becuase it was a private school.

Loads of kids go to private school and live in the real world.