Is Westminster School the best school on Earth? STATESMOM returns

[statesmom]

I have a lot to say, don't know if anyone remembers the thread. Let me know if you want to hear from me.

Hope you’re enjoying being there in the middle in monsoon season. Most expats flee the region at this time of year. They’re not keen on getting dengue.

What has struck me as unusual is the OPs very straight down the line Republican, 'America is the best', right wing, money is everything, views despite:

Having a French husband, so presumably has been exposed to a fair amount of French culture,
Having lived a decade in the very multi cultural city of London,
Also lived / lives /has a house in Democratic multi cultural New York,
Went to an Ivy College, so well educated and practised in more nuanced debating than 'you're all insecure and hysterical'
And lastly, has just revealed has a property in an Asian country, so exposed to that culture as well.

@LeavesOnTrees Deprnds how much of this is true. There are always outliers .. I agree though, lots of things don’t add up.

This is precious.

Not everyone has to fit neatly into a preconeived box of beliefs.

It reminds me of how Clarence Thomas was treated. "You're a black man, you are not allowed to have conservative views."

Not everyone "adds up".

No accounting for poor decisions either.

Nope. You said 8 years old. And also said that you were still waiting to see if he was academic. By Y8 you would already have had a conditional offer for either Eton or Westminster and would have needed to consider bunging some money to the admissions head. So I call absolute bullshit.

I remember it very clearly because it was such a bonkers thread!!!

Indeed. I’m just waiting for one of the current year group leavers to be bored enough in the summer holiday at either school to discover this thread and to deduce the family in question….there’s certainly more than enough detail posted by the OP to go on…especially as Snapchat can tell them all who is in SE Asia atm 😉 the only saving grace for the OP’s son (if indeed he attended Westminster) is that this year’s edition of Pink (the end of year in-house satirical magazine created anonymously by a leaver ) has probably been published…. Because otherwise…

If I were the OP, I’d be getting this thread pulled.

Fear not though, she’s bound to start another thread to have the last word… and probably will pretend to have an OW daughter this time 😂

I come on these websites so infrequently, it's almost like anthropology to me.

Does anyone care who you are, what your motivations are and so on?

Are people's lives so vapid and devoid of meaning that they would spend their personal time looking someone up, trying to figure out who they are?

Last time I was here was 10 years ago.

Last time I looked at this site in any fashion? 10 years ago.

Amount of time I spent searching about someone on here? zero point zero.

I do not live a life of quiet desperation.

This is fun.

Waiting patiently for the thread to be pulled…and the deletion message… my money’s on -

‘on reflection the OP thinks she has shared too much personal information on this thread and has become identifiable’

The thing I love, is people attacking me with paper tigers like:

"You do everything for your son but you don't realize that he needs to figure things out on his own!!!!"

"You have told your son how to live his life; he needs to make his own choices!!!!"

Stupid stuff like that.

Like: I don't understand such things. I mean this is moronic. Is this what people do on these websites?!

(But it does make people feel better about themselves; about that I have no doubt.)

Maybe mumsnet is the opiate of the hystrionic, hyperbolic hysterical masses?

Perhaps if nothing else has been gained from this thread, many of us realise that not engaging a consultant, has made zero difference to the successful outcome our DC’s have had at Uni and in gaining graduate roles. We’re celebrating as DD has had two further languages accredited at her role with the EU - nothing to do with me, all her efforts, skill and hard work.

Hahahah!

How can a consultant make zero difference???

Delusional.

We didn’t use a consultant for our DT’s (same as other posters on this thread). DT’s both got 1st from RG Unis and then sought after graduate roles. Can’t see what would have been different if we’d used a consultant?

I don't think people are trying to figure out who you are OP.

I think they're just pointing out that your dates don't make any sense as if your son was 8 (as you said) in the previous thread, he would now be 18.

So wouldn't have an offer for a six figure job lined up for when he would be 22, a number of years away yet.

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@TheBossOfMe what was the old thread? I'm invested now

Fill your boots and make your own decision about whether or not her Son was Y8 or 8yo…..Lol.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/secondary/1985236-Is-Westminster-School-the-best-school-on-Earth

2014 when op was considering Westminster or Eton for her 8 year old. Now she says y8 dc. Doesn’t add up.

Not when you throw in asking about which reading Lamps are best at Eton in 2017….😂 which, according to this thread he should’ve attended but didn’t because she wouldn’t consider boarding….

Or the thread in 2014 where the OP was up in arms about Sex Education for her 8yo….

@DDberzatto missed those!

@TheBossOfMe Here are some of the 40 pages. Same story. Rudeness and posters saying it’s not appropriate. Huge number of posts deleted. Quite a mammoth read!

It's not a decision - on that thread the batshit yank states quite clearly that

He's 8. And he'll be 12 when we decide.

You don't ask a 12 year old their opinion on such an important topic. You tell them.

It's called being a parent.

So as that was 8th February 2014 her son is now 18 (possibly 19) so not 22 and on his way to a grad job in CItibank.

And - same reactions as now. Nothing learnt I think!

I was being polite 😁

I did post them up thread… that was when the OP decided her son was 13 and in Y8… even though he had to have had his name down by Y5 😂

@DDberzatto It was more the incredulous responses 10 years ago that are similar to now. It’s like reading the same rubbish twice. I know you posted the thread but with 40 pages of it, there’s yet more interesting posts! Many get deleted!