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Original poster

Do the words "my child goes to prep school" anger you?

146 replies

mrcerec · 10/09/2009 18:59

I started another thread and mentoned that my son went to prep school. I was shocked as I thought MN was all-inclusive, or should I start an alternative site called "MaterNet"

Mrcerec

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Sonnet · 10/09/2009 19:36

Your child goes to school, end of! The "Type" of school has nothing to do with it at all. IMO of course!

Original poster
mrcerec · 10/09/2009 19:41

To reiterate (really it should be iterate as it means again in latin

I wanted to know if the h&S rules were different in the state system from the private system

Geddit now?

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piscesmoon · 10/09/2009 19:41

It would depend entirely on how it was said. It is just another choice so it wouldn't annoy me at all, unless the assumption was being made that it was somehow better. I think I would have been more inclined to use the name of the school rather than the sort of school.

Sycamoretreeisvile · 10/09/2009 19:42

IMO it was relevant to the thread, in that you were pissed off both as a client and a parent (as another poster put it) but as another poster pointed out, the teacher making that request of you would be as unreasonable in a state school.

MN is inclusive, but yes, of course prep school is going to elicit some kind of reaction in people.

Very few people have no opinion about private schooling. They either:

  1. Have it.
  2. Don't have it and want it.
  3. Don't have it and don't want it.

Only folk in bracket one would have no reaction to the words prep school in an OP.

But that's just my HO

Sonnet · 10/09/2009 19:45

Yes I do get it mrcerec...

And as an Independent school parent I stand by my comments of "trip trap"

50ftQueenie · 10/09/2009 19:46

Grrrrr raarrararaara!!! ROAARRRR!!!!

No, I really don't care.

Original poster
mrcerec · 10/09/2009 19:47

What is "trip trap"

Interesting you use independent rather than private

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Sycamoretreeisvile · 10/09/2009 19:47

Ooh, I've got you confused with the lady who had to change her son for PE at his prep school before going to work.

As you were.

Doodlez · 10/09/2009 19:49

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Hulababy · 10/09/2009 19:49

MarmadukeScarlet - similar finger happened to my sister, albeit different way of accident occuring, when she was at school. Left her all day, aged 5 or 6, with a swollen finger (which was actually quite a nasty break) with no parents called. Was state school.

I am afraid these things can happen in ALL types of schools.

RumourOfAHurricane · 10/09/2009 19:49

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Sonnet · 10/09/2009 19:50

New to Mumsnet?

Yes I do use "independent" as opposed to Private or Public, because that it what it is!

scottishmummy · 10/09/2009 19:51

pretty innocuous statement.doesn't incite me to shout class war ya rich bastard or anything.dont need to hold dem glistening torches and mosey over to mrcerec place

certain phrases get someone MN in an incandescent haze

like talking about baby in nursery.

get's all the precious moments mamas spewing "well why have em in first place if you let reprobates watch em"

and if this is a thread about another thread i havent read the other thread.

Original poster
mrcerec · 10/09/2009 19:52

Yes new.

But it is also private (cf private healthcare )

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scottishmummy · 10/09/2009 19:54

i always say private school.never really heard private schools referred to as independent school in rl conversation.

bibbitybobbityhat · 10/09/2009 20:03

"I was shocked as I thought MN was all-inclusive" - what does this mean?

MN is all inclusive. Why are you shocked?

You haven't said what you were shocked by.

Similarly you didn't say what it was you wanted or expected your son's school to do after his accident.

Most of us felt that the prep school/state school element of your story was completely irrelevant.

You would have been similarly pulled up if the music teacher had been black or a woman or had acne and you had mentioned it. It has no bearing on what happened.

letsgostrawberrypicking · 10/09/2009 20:05

"trip trap" means someone thinks you are a troll MrC

dogonpoints · 10/09/2009 20:14

tuff up, mr

scottishmummy · 10/09/2009 20:14

jesus wept the troll patrol will turn up soon.all junior detectives.inevitably posting inane links and snopping around

NotanOtter · 10/09/2009 20:19

why would you be showing off about that?

ABetaDad · 10/09/2009 20:23

Lets see now. "My child goes to prep school."

Nope that does not anger me because my children do go to Prep school.

Lets try another. "My child goes to Primary school."

Nope that does not anger me because me and DW went to Primary school.

Get over it people.

ReneRusso · 10/09/2009 20:36

Just read the other thread and I think on the whole most responses were polite.
No it doesn't bother me that you used the term "prep school", although I was slightly taken aback by "matron". Its just really funny and old-fashioned, but fine no problem.
And yes, you are right to be cross about it. I would write a letter of formal complaint. Whether you are paying or not the school has a duty to treat injuries seriously.

random · 10/09/2009 20:40

The matron made me snigger ..had visions of Hattie Jaques

Lizzylou · 10/09/2009 20:42

With all due respect MR, I don't give a flying fig where your DC go to school.

PortAndLemon · 10/09/2009 21:02

Given that the Independent School Council calls them... well... "Independent", it's hardly a desperately interesting turn of phrase.