Suey2 - I wasn't saying the oratory isa bog standard comprehensive by any stretch! I know, I went there for 6th form! I was just objecting to an earlier post which stated, with little regard for little things like facts, that all labour MPs send their kids to private school. I was just saying actually, no they don't - look at the Blairs. 4 children, No private schools, not for primary or secondary.
I completeley abhor faith schools, I think they are unprogressive, divisive, and yet another way of creaming off the middle class kids whose parents can be arsed to play the game, leaving those kids whose parents don't know there is a game / can't be arsed to play it / don't know how / don't have the money / education / language etc etc to do it...to go to the local school and struggle along there.
I wasn't defending his school choice - though I think its a damnsite better than just sending them to private school whilst telling everyone else in the country how great the state schools are.
And actually, if you can play the game, you can get into the Oratory - rich or poor. You just need to pretend to be religious, and if you don't live in Fulham, have to be willing to send your kids on an inca length trek to school every day. But money isn't a barrier to that school, which imho, makes it a serious cut above any private school, in terms of its contribution to social justice./
But really, I just love bog standard comprehensives.