Separate Private Schools board please

[MrsBright]

Dear Mums Net HQ,
Please can we find somewhere else than 'Secondary School Education' for the Belgravia crowd to parade their 'St Trinians vs Eton' conversations? Its getting like the private school version of Trip Advisor.

Then the SS Education board could get back to talking about slightly more universal topics like GCSEs and bullying, that involve ALL mothers.

diablo Flying lessons @£70 a yr, On track for 8 A*s etc that's what its all about innit? We're still battling with 13+ CE.

'yet/private' DYAC (or reflection of the quality of my state schooling?) - should have been state/private

There's the 'jealous' post for your card , Curlew.

Trampled

Most of us are looking for the best option available to us as parents. I am fortunate enough to have a well paid job so one of the options available to me is private education. That doesn't make me a better parent just one with a higher than average disposable income.

I don't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks about how I or anyone else choose to educate our children.

I use/used state, private and a free school. Stick that in your bitter pipe. I'll carry on doing what suits my children. And if someone calls me a cunt, I will tell them to fuck off. All's fair and all that.

I haven't read anything more than the (pretty illiterate) OP. I do predict a riot.

FWIW, the division between state and private is damaging and harmful. A state education parent wants topics that are 'universal' and for 'universal' we have to understand that this means 'relevant to state school parents'. I'm sorry but your concerns are not universal. They are not, any more than my concerns are. Get real.

I think I've got "jealous" already. I'm still waiting for "rubbing shoulders with all sorts" closely followed by "I'm not going to throw dc to the wolves".

Don't forget stuck up bitch who finances her lifestyle by sleeping with men. That annoyed me as a) I earn more than my male partner and b) I generally like to go on top. None of which has anything do do with where my children might go to school of course.

Have you got a 'bitter'

Sleeping under men I should say

This thread has reminded me to ask: when do we get a popcorn emoticon?

Trampled & Curlew
It's interesting how you look for fault in the private school parents but happily ignore or seek to defend the attacks by the OP which were far far worse.

Why do private school parents bother you so much? We're not that interesting. You wouldn't guess if you sat next to me on the bus that my DC are in a private school.

Do you get extra points, curlew, if the word 'sacrifice' is used? That makes my toes curl. My son went to an independent school from the age of 11. I would rather have had my toenails removed without anaesthetic than say we paid the fees by making sacrifices.

In the interest of balance, I hasten to add that my daughter was attending a comprehensive school at the same time.

I don't defend personal attacks. I only saw one of the deleted posts and I thought it was most unpleasant and I'm glad it's gone. I assume the others were similar,so I'm glad they're gone too.

I don't have a problem with people sending their children to private school. I have a problem with private schools, but while they are there people will of course use them. However, I do find the knots some private school parents tie themselves up in to justify their choice (instead of just saying yep- my choices get over it) incredibly funny. Hence my bingo card.

Calling someone 'chippy' though, when they are oh so clearly chippy, shouldn't be legs 11 though, Curlew.

Ah I understand the bingo card now and no - we don't have a Volvo nor are my DC sensitive and misunderstood

I have no issue with people objecting to private schools. I can see that some of the justification would make you go

Can we have a separate topic for threads which are deleted to the point they are indecipherable

Hmm, possibly. But I've had "chip on the shoulder" too, so I'll let "chippy" pass.

Ah, but do you just take the tent down to Cornwall for holidays, Chaz?

Feels like still on way home from work and I've just wandered into the Subway store at station, and just heard the person in front of me just asking for an "extra long irony sub with extra irony trimmings please"

'Separate Private Schools board please'

Ok Miss, huge entitlement dollop for that demand coming right up, although are you sure you wouldn't like to adjust that order a little bit though, like most of the other customer's requests are?

'I hate chillis as they are divisive and raise temperatures, so make sure you smother it with that too.'

Ok Miss, extra large dollop of very strange way of thinking coming right up too then.

'I care about every single topping just as equally but I'm telling you now, if it's one of my own on your sub, you should shit yourself'

Erm, ok Miss, just so I know (as that sounds pretty scary tbh Miss), which branch do you work at?

'Like I'd tell YOU? And it's Mrs Bright to you BTW'

I'm too scared to answer the irony in that one Miss, I mean Mrs, Bright as otherwise it might be me getting sacked from here.

'Good, as you've got no right to a view different to mine anyway never mind anything like an actual discussion. And no, I dont need want chips with that'

No we pop off to our place abroad...

(DH is foreign and so we go to visit his family)

Very good, iWasBorn

Omg, have been deleted and I don't even remember what I said! how bizarre. What a funny little forum Mumsnet is these days.

I think you said you had never been deleted on a private school thread

Well that is amusing .

Deary me. Utter farce is a phrase that comes to mind.

As I said, I am not a fan of segregated education, but I really never envisaged op's fairly innocuous initial posts leading to this sorry state of affairs .

Were all those message deletions really necessary HQ, or are people not allowed to have a bit of a tiff on here any more?