What cars do private school mums drive?

[lavendarhillslob]

Is it all 4x4s and Porches? Do any of you drive cars that are not range rover evoques. And if there are mums at your school who drive normal cars, like a Ford Mondeo - what do you think of them?

[sylviassecrets]

I am a private school mum, I don't have a car.

[Want2bSupermum]

Brenda You come across as having a chip on your shoulder.

I agree with DancingDino that many of parents at the state school drove flashier cars compared to the majority of parents at the private school I attended. I was in the North West on the Wirral so it was rather middle class with pockets of real poverty. Towards the upper years no one had a car that less than 5 years old yet at the state school newer cars were very common.

If your post at (16:52) was directed at me, the reason people know what car we drive is that school is one block from our home plus 3 of DD's classmates live on the same block as us so they see us coming and going, just as we see them coming as going. I might walk the kids to school but the class see each other all the time as we all live so close to each other. I know one parent drives a Maserati even though they also walk their DS to school every single day. They live 3 blocks from us and we often end up at the supermarket on Sunday morning at 7am to snag all the weekly specials.

[Sillybillybonker]

want2be I went to a private girls school on the Wirral. I have no idea what cars the parents drove though because nearly everyone came by bus. There were loads of people on free places though due to the Council using it as the Catholic 11+ school. Therefore, it was only a bit posh ;) Maybe that is why I don't drive a flash car - according to a previous poster only a new generation of private school parents have flash cars. Actually, I can't afford one!

[wickedwaterwitch]

Ha ha at this thread

I drive an (old, tatty, knackered) 4 x 4

This photo was at a (private) school event last year. There are other cars out of shot and they're mostly 4x4s.

I couldn't care less what car anyone drives tbh

[lavendarhillslob]

It's usually the people who drive 4x4s who say "I don't care what people drive." But they do.

I was putting my makeup on in the car waiting to pick up DS from school and a woman in a 4x4 parked next to me. She was literally looking down on me from her throne in the sky. She had a right sneer on her face. Was it because I don't have a 4x4 or was it because I was using the mirror to put on my lipstick?

[thehypocritesoaf]

Meh, there are snobs everywhere. They make me grin.

[Notoedike]

Mostly 4x4's - I live very close to a private school, they all turn outside my house.

[TheGonnagle]

I just (reluctantly) parted with my 12 year old Megane, and have replaced it with a Mazda3. All sorts at our school, from knackers to stunners, with the vast majority being practical family cars.

[Toooldforthat]

Cars are annoying, I was so pleased to accept a place in a school in the middle of the city for DC, nobody comes by car! I tend to judge more the ££££ 4x4 than the Ford Mondeos though, we have a ££ 4x4 BTW :)

[Boardingblues]

At my DS's school it ranges from Polos and Micras, through battered old Volvo estates, through to the Aston Martins, chauffeur -driven Bentleys and then there are the helicopter crowd…. But no one cares!

[Lookingforwardtoholiday]

I drive an XC90 and I would say that the vast majority are similar. Loads of range rovers, Discovery, evoque's, BMW X5 plus a couple of Ferrari's, vintage cars and Porsches. There are also a few mini's and fiat 500's but vvvv few old bangers and those that are tend to be the 'station car' with the dad driving it to the station and the main car being much fancier

[Notoedike]

Yes i recognise the station car - dh takes it!

[Bombaybunty]

My dd is at an expensive independant school. I drive a 7 year old fiesta.

[BertrandRussell]

"They live 3 blocks from us and we often end up at the supermarket on Sunday morning at 7am to snag all the weekly specials."

Gosh- do they open the supermarket at illegal times just for private school parents? Who knew?

[BrendaFlange]

Want2Besupermum - you come across as someone who has chips in your brains.

Of course there is the odd state school where many parents have flash cars and many private school parents who do not have flash cars.

This does not reflect the obvious fact that between the 7% of the population who can afford to send their kids to private school and the 93% who do not (even though that will include a % who could afford private ed but chooses not to) there will a massive discrepancy on the % of each group able to buy expensive cars.

The state school group, for example, includes all the parents who could not afford a car of any kind, for example.

I said "And it's obvious that more people who can afford private school will be able to afford an expensive car (IF they want one) than the rest of the population". That doesn't mean that no-one outside private school can afford flash cars.

No, I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I went to a private school, my parents had an enviable Audi. And a hideous brick coloured Vauxhall Viva.

I do however find much in this thread worth of piss-take cynicism and a good old eye roll,

Snobbery, inverse snobbery, glib assumptions that we all understand that a state school is good because it is in a 'nice area', comments that imply that state school parents with flash cars are 'materialistic', disingenuous please that 'no-one cares', when so many obviously do, or give others the impression that they do.....

And why? because in the end it is all about class. Entrenched class, aspirational class, unease about class, real concern about lack of equality, the higher number of expensive 4x4s on the high st against the higher number of food banks etc etc.

Cars, per se, are desperately boring. If I were a multi-millionaire I would not spend cash on cars.

[prettywhiteguitar]

Citron Picasso

[SleepyForest]

One parent at school drives a Smokey and the Bandit car (I have massive car envy).

[SixtyFootDoll]

Lavender I think you have a chip on your shoulder.

If someone makes you feel inferior by the way they look at you, then I think that's your problem.

[TottenhamCourtRoad]

Toughasoldboots what makes you say that?

[TheTigerIsOut]

Lots and lots of 4x4s but that's perhaps owed to the rural location of the school. Two of my friends drive a higher end Mercedes and a BMW (both company cars their husbands do not use as they have much fancier cars). Another drives a Clio (most people think they have a better car parked at home), I got away with a mini. IMO the ones that have more money are the ones less worried to make an impresion with their cars.

Now, if you think you can relax in trrms of provate school's keeping up with the Jones antics, forget about it. It is not the cars you should worry about but the bloody birthday parties!

[Boardingblues]

Taking DS back to his school tomorrow…. Not sure if I can get all the bags in my Lamborghini, might have to take the Range Rover, or maybe I could take the Aston and get the chauffeur to follow in the Mondeo….

[sugar21]

Four wheel drive souped up only one previous ownersteptoe horse and cart

[Iamnotloobrushphobic]

Why would you deny having a tutor to the teachers feta? It is helpful for teachers to know if a child is tutored as sometimes teachers and tutors use different methods which might confuse the child.