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!!

Ah, that's nothing.

In my very expensive private primary school (abroad) we pretended to be was victims for a day and the whole school was decorated to look like a war zone, the teachers bandaged our arms or legs up when bent to look like wa had lost limbs in mines and dabbed red food colouring on the bandages to look like blood, and we had to sit in the coridoor and pretend to beg while parents came round. It was to raise money for Afghanistan

war victims, not was victims

Ooops, getting my little brutes to 'play homeless' as an attempt to bring the book 'Stone Cold' to life was obviously pretty poor taste according to the consensus. Does the fact they are only just above the breadline on the whole themselves make my sin any less redeemable?

Pagwatch, how dare you feed your children canapes. You should make them pay penance every day for being so hideously lucky. I know my parents did. (They didn't really, but perhaps they should have done.)

I don't think it's acceptable for any school to get the kids to dress up as homeless people whatever the point, TBH.

And the fact that they come from very affluent backgrounds adds an extra layer of distaste. None is trying to blame the children for this, but the staff certainly have some questions to answer.

None=no-one

The staff have no questions to answer at all. Some kids with fake bears smiled on facebook? If I was that teacher I'd say what are you doing on the kids facebook pages?

Is it just me or does anybody else think it's at all off in any way that OP named her neice's school and described their facebook page? Would you accept somebody naming your kids school on here and describing what was on their FB page?

Mine didn't dress up, they're not posh enough.

Fake bears, nooo that would be silly. God I'd be asking those posh kids some difficult questions if they faked bears.

Fake beards, doh.

Although if you speed read the thread title, there is much to agree with.

I too am sick of the sight of posh kids dressing like tramps. I live in a posh area and my god, if I see any more down at heel boots, artfully dishevelled hair and 'faux distressed' Jack Wills apparel I'll scream.

Posh kids!

Stop dressing like tramps!

OP consider tourself lucky at least that it is not our local posh - but - handiuly - free school-

Head sent home rules demanding that nobody is rude about the school on facebook

(Am hoping she dxoesn't mean MN also coz frankly the horse has bolted, died of old age and been made into glue....)

"Polo players tend not to be disadvantaged in the same way as the homeless."

Spoken like someone who's never been on the unforgiving end of a biased flagman.

Alas, it's true, mayorquimby. I've led a sheltered life.

Should this thread not be deleted if these girls can be tracked down?

The OP may loath their posh chirping voices and their rhino skin, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about their details being up here.

I went to private school and totally agree with the OP. I was completely disconnected from real life and normal people. I mean, the few days I spent living rough on the mean streets of London, I was throwing tartlet and fritatta canapes pagwatch-style to the tramps in the Marcle Arch subways whilst trying to educate them on homelessness-chic. All because I was down on my luck didn't mean I had to let my impossibly high standards drop.

YABU, and petty to boot.

PMSL, Pagwatch. Hadn't thought of showing mine pics of Her Majesty, but now I will.

When you say that there is no context where children should dress up as homeless people, do you mean that they shouldn't if it was for a drama project or school play? It might well have been in this context that they dressed up this way.

People who are homeless can be posh too, anyone can end up on the streets, from any sort of background, surely it would be a good thing to learn that any one of us who could end up sleeping rough.

You are not alone LeQueen, I hope in the future DH and I are in a position to give our children the upbringing I had, in a heartbeat. I suspect that will be off the cards for a while, but we're both anticipating working in private schools in the future which would make it possible. Combine my childhood with his and you have perfection in my eyes (I don't just mean the financial aspects), which I guess is a compliment to our parents.

I don't think there is anything wrong with cotton wool (as much as I can buy?!), but maybe I'm unusual.

If it's wrong, LeQueen and MrsC, then we can be wrong together.

I'm with Tether'sEnd on this. It is tasteless to get children to dress up as homeless people. The more affluent the children, the more tasteless it becomes.

Identifying the children and their school is wrong though. As far as I am concerned it is the school that is in the wrong for doing this, not the children, but there were better ways of going about this.....