Do Jamie Oliver's children attend private schools?

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Just been watching his C4 series and wondering.....

ALmost certainly. I don't think it matters.

No I don't think it does either. Just feel sorry for the school chef! ;)

PMSL!

I should think so.

If my kids end up in classes with the cast of his Dream school, they will too.

And other mums cooking his children tea if they come to play!

I know. How very dare he try to improve the health of children in schools his will never attend.

What a wanker.

So if they do he'll be going in to lecture them on how to best engage the kids will he?

He's a conceited twit

Why would he not send his girls to private school? With the amount of money the family has I would be shocked if they went to state school.

Given the choice most people would, in this country at this time!

But who really cares what he does. No ones business but thiers.

I like JO. Not seen the Dream School thing but thought the school dinners prog was fabulous.

Yes - that's what really irritates me, Beertricks. What on earth makes him feel he is qualified to comment on the education system in the 21st century? He has no formal training in education and he has no experience of the state system as a parent either.

pippibluestocking - I suspect he will have done his homeork though and researched this long and hard, as he did the school dinners thing. He also spent a lot of time in state schools during the school dinner programme, both before,during and after.

Where his children are educated is irrelevant. People are allowed to care about state schools even if they are not customers of the system. Or shall we also ban childless people from such thingsoo?

I havemn't watched the programme. Don't fancy it. Don't think it'll work particularly. But good on him for wanting and trying to make a difference, even if not a long term workable way. It gets people talking and thinging at thevery least, just like school dinners did.

Yes, nice to know he's not only interested in his children, rather than taking the 'I'm alright Jack' perspective and having no interest in those less advantaged than his children. Good for him.

I always thought he had his heart in the right place, but just read a couple of his comments in an interview about dream school and have changed my mind, agreeing with the twit, wanker comments now...

e.g. reintroduce the workhouse for the dim kids -
"When you're unleashing students into an economy where there's trouble with jobs, the ones who haven't got academic verve, they need to have a basic approach to physical work. You need to be able to knock out seven 18-hour days in a row ? you need to know what real fucking work is?"

and a bit of racial stereotyping chucked in for good measure -
"...when it comes to the 16- to 20-year-olds we see at the moment, I've never experienced such a wet generation. I'm embarrassed to look at British kids. You get their mummies phoning up and saying: "He's too tired, you're working him too hard" ? even the butch ones. Meanwhile, I've got bulletproof, rock-solid Polish and Lithuanians who are tough and work hard. Physical graft and grunt is something this generation is struggling with."

Yes - you do have a point there, pigeon, I just find his cheepy chappie diamond geezer act a bit phoney and ever more exagerrated

I think where his children go to school has no relevance to this debate

Personally, I'm glad that he's stopped a generation of children from being force-fed complete crap while parents/teachers/LEAs stood by idly. Good job, well done

And I echo the comments about lack of hard work. The new generation of graduates in my firm is the idlest I've ever seen. They'll last not very long at all.

Carry on with the Jamie-bashing though, chaps, don't mind me ...

I just wanted to second everything you've said, BeerTricksPotter.

I'm a bit surprised at how cross I am about the series - I think it's really quite exploitative, really. And utterly, utterly hypocritical and self-aggrandising.

I think he did some really good work with Fifteen but, for Pete's sake, if he cares that much why not do it quietly? My mum told me that if you do good works, you shouldn't tell anyone about it, as then it becomes about you not the deed itself. (Obviously, she's very out of step with the present day ...)