dd who is 15 attended a conference in Paris this past weekend.It explains it \link{http://www.roundsquare.org/here}.Theirs was the only state school in attendance.
Despite having a wonderful time and meeting loads of new friends from all over the place she was quite shocked at the way some of the kids looked down on them because they were from state schools.
She was also extremely shocked with the way the girls from girls only schools were throwing themselves at the boys.
I have been reassuring her that it was the lack of maturity in the particular students and the petty name calling would more than likely be towards the privately educated if the tables were turned.They were the odd ones out ,so ripe for the picking so to speak.
No advice wanted ,just a bit sad that she's come away feeling like they are better than her for some reason.
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