Private school pupils banned from work experience in hospitals

[beelegal]

“Pupils who want to be doctors 'barred' from vital work experience at NHS hospitals - because they go to private school”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15007121/amp/doctors-work-experience-NHS-hospitals-private-school.html

This will be extended to all civil service jobs.
Bridgitte Philipson is a nasty bully. What next, private school pupils to sit on certain sections on buses? I cannot wait until the next general election, this shower need a wipeout.

But it’s not equality is it

Yes, I really, really do.

Don’t bother.

Well you’d be wrong then wouldn’t you.

Really? I've posted a link to 1 ie Oratory.
The top London state schools plus state boarding schools are certainly privileged because of the wealth of parents who choose them eg cost of house in their catchments.

But the point is some kids ARE good enough.

But they don’t have the parents or confidence to help them realise this.

Lots of very very able students come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They just don’t realise their ability due to circumstance.

Nope, 7% of school pupils are educated privately in the U.K. I mean I googled it and almost all of the information I saw said between 6 and 7%. Even if it was 18%, they are still hugely over represented.

My post was in reply to a PP who said all children in independent schools are posh, and all ones in state schools aren't. So I used The Oratory as an example of why that isn't true.

This is ridiculous! Nobody should be shut out from this type of opportunity.

Please please do yourself a favour and save yourself time arguing with yourselfabout your own mistake, just read back my posts and realise I did not at any point say that "all [children] in state schools aren't [posh]" x

So, like I said, you are a reverse snob and base your view on very narrow stereotypes. Do you know any children at independent schools?
Do you know that 25-30% of children at independent schools are on fee assistance?
Military families who the MoD pay the fees?

I’m not sure what you’re saying.

Teaching is mainly a degree entry profession ( there are exceptions)

Eveey teacher l worked with was articulate and all were highly intelligent. Lots with PhD’s. This is in state schools.

How can someone teach English without being articulate? And English underpins every subject.

"working alongside privately educated entitled little twerps slumming it by getting lowly work experience in an NHS Trust through their parents nepotism or parents friends is draining unlike state school DC who are genuinely bright, able, willing and interested"

Wow just wow, you ate talking about children! What a nasty piece of work you are, discriminating and name calling children based only on the type of school they go to.

At secondary level yes but at A level it's 18%

I didn't make a mistake, you have. Read your post which I was responding to!

What a pleasant being you are, are you like this IRL, or just behind the safety of a screen?

Honestly it's a lovely sunny afternoon, don't spend it upset because I flippantly described public school as posh.

I know you don't understand what I'm saying.

Oh irony.

See my post from 17:40

Talk about misunderstanding the point 🙄

Get lost grammar police.

Its a chat board not a PhD thesis.

I can only assume that either I expressed myself very badly or you’re deliberately misunderstanding me. No, I wasn’t saying people “belong” in the medical profession. What I was saying, obviously badly, was that some people-like my children, and probably yours- belong and feel comfortable in the stratum of society which generally speaking professional people come from. And while that’s not going to get you into a profession, it is a HUGE hurdle they don’t have to get over.

We need more private schools not fewer. It is absurd to suggest otherwise.

Exactly

You then described children from independent schools as "entitled little twerps". That's all I need to know about you.

I imagine you would rightly kick off if I called all kids from state schools as "thick little chavs". I wouldn't do that though cos I'm not a twat and it isn't true because children aren't 1 homogenous group of people.

This is good news as far as I'm concerned. My DD is a medical student and we know a number of doctors who got their DC in for work experience, despite our local Trust not allowing work experience. Schemes should absolutely be targeting those who are much more likely to have barriers to entry.

Oh right sorry for my comments then I think we got mixed up. I didn't say the "twerps" thing that was someone else. Fwiw I wouldn't say that and think that's wrong. I have no issue with private school kids (even if I think it's OK to call them posh) but I also support initiatives to widen participation.