Would you send your ds to Eton?

[Flum]

assuming you could afford to.

Probably not as it's really far from us.

If I liked the school then yeah why not!

No.

Though everyone I know who went there is perfectly charming.

I wouldn't want my ds boarding (not that I have one) and if he did want to he would go to the same school my dh, his father and his grandfather went to I should imagine.

Yes!

My godson goes there and the opportunities he has are amazing.

yes, my sister rows there sometimes and all the boys are really nice, not at all stuck up and sooooo polite. Would definitely send ds there, if I was rich and lived nearby.

Is it boarding only? I wouldn't want my DSs boarding.

I don't know how I feel about Eton as an institution, I don't know enough about it, really.

But its boarding Expat.

I think I would if they struck me as being 1. very confident, 2. Extremely academically able.

I know a few blokes who went there and it did none of them any favours. It is a very divisive culture and not good for any boys with an ounce of 'sensitivity' IMHO.

don't want to send my son to boarding school, so no to Eton or anywhere else (unless they did day boarding I guess) - my husband went, and is totally adament that it is not the way he wants his son brought up (for lots of good reasons)

Also the sports facilities are amazing!!

(If I lived near there so no boarding then yes btw, no problem)

Well, I know it's boarding, but it's too far. Gordonstoun is closer to us.

no.

i wouldn't but I like the little suit though

Flum if you sent your ds there you could get him little "At School" cards printed

if i could afford it, then definitly.
but caant, so local state it is.....

CD - oh yes defo. You are right about the manners though. All Eton boys are very good at opening doors and walking on the outside of the pavement. I'm a sucker for that.

I haven't got a ds but just interested.

Yes.

I might waiver at the thought of DSs boarding but if it was the best option for them then yes.

No, if we had the money, we'd send them to Westminster. I don't much like the idea of them boarding anywhere - weekly boarding maybe.

why Westminster, Puff?

Blimey the things you learn on mn. (or perhaps I should say, at Eton)I never knew that walking on the outside of the pavement was good etiquette. But what about leaving your sword arm free to defend your charge? I mean what if you are on the wrong side of the road/walking in the wrong direction and you have to choose between the two? what's a boy meant to do? or maybe you need to stump up several tens of thousands of pounds in fees to find out.

I believe it comes from Elizabethan times when all the houses had overhangs on top floor, people used to chuck their buckets of poo out of the window into the street and so the men would walk on the outside to prevent their women being covered in shite.

No wonder they needed pomanders

DP struggles with 'if he is pushing the buggy and walking with me. He opts for going on the inside then as dd needs his protection more than me - ahhhhhhhhh

I thought it came from the days of carriages and they were protecting you from runaway carriage wheels and splashes of mud.