Social Education - My DD is too advantaged/resents the poor - please help change this!

[Willmaa]

Hi all,

I my DD is wonderfully intelligent and popular with everybody in her school, Wycombe Abbey which costs just shy of £10,000 a year (we chose this school as we didn't want her to be badly influenced in a state comprehensive as she didn't quite pass her 11+)

However, as of late I have found her becoming more and more prejudice towards the poor, and less intelligent, saying for example 'just ignore them - don't pay benefits to them' or 'poor people have no dignity - look at their Primark clothes' or things to similar effect.

As a Mum from a relatively disadvantaged background who is and always has been a Social Democrat and Labour supporter, I think that enough is enough and that and I want to educate her and show that many poorer people do not choose to be that way and are more of victims or circumstances.

Can anybody please suggest a way to educate my DD about people who are not from a select very advantaged family? Maybe volunteering or activities with them etc?

Thanks

Tell her that as she's too thick to pass the 11+ once mummy and daddy have stopped buying all her clothes she'll probably have to shop at Primark. Will be all she can afford on a shelf stacker's wage.

Token poor person - damn, wish I'd thought of that!

Congrats to your DD1 Riven.

I think that the OP is very resentful (possibly of private education?)and who wants to hear bad things said against a perfectly good school.... Why else would you make things up?

I don't post a lot but this is so hilarious. The one about Sandy/Grease had me in stitches.

Can someone please tell me what a troll is?

a troll is somebody who makes up crazy, inflammatory posts just to get a rise out of everyone and cause arguments etc. i.e. they are lying!

but I really hope willmaa isn't a troll, I would love to believe somebody is really that funny :o

absolutely PMSL at a wonderfully intelligent girl who couldn't pass the 11+