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ElfontheShelfIsWATCHINGYOUTOO · 17/12/2023 04:23

One would have thought he would be educated normally at a day school?

YireosDodeAver · 17/12/2023 04:40

Not going to click the daily heil link, but what a silly headline.

In any family where dad went to school A (all boys school) and mum went to school B (co-ed) and the kids are a mix of boys & girls the parents are going to seriously consider school B as a sensible choice that they can send all their kids to as and when the time comes.

When the family in question have extra issues to deal with around security and publicity a campus-style boarding school is a better daily environment than a day school.

Marlborough seems like a perfectly rational choice to me and describing it as a "snub" to eton is just stupid journalism because the word is nice and short and the actual meaning of words unimportant to the rag in question.

user1492757084 · 17/12/2023 04:51

I agree. Of course they would visit schools to ascertain the most suitable.
Privacy, security and parents who have less flexibility to transport kids to after school activities every day are very good reasons to send children to a boarding school.
George deserves freedom to be a teenager without too much scrutiny.

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Greatballzoffire · 17/12/2023 06:44

Agree with all you are saying above! I wonder will Marlborough see a huge increase in applications now! Apparently Lambrooks applications increased dramatically when the royals joined!

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Rainbowqueeen · 17/12/2023 06:51

Eugenie attended there so it must pass the security tests

I can understand them wanting all the DC to go to the same school and if their mum was happy and thrived there, why not. It seems really important to them as parents to have a close family with happy kids

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Greatballzoffire · 17/12/2023 07:03

I wonder where Pippa will send /is sending the kids? She could possibly go down the Lambrook /Marlborough route too

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sashh · 17/12/2023 10:12

YireosDodeAver · 17/12/2023 04:40

Not going to click the daily heil link, but what a silly headline.

In any family where dad went to school A (all boys school) and mum went to school B (co-ed) and the kids are a mix of boys & girls the parents are going to seriously consider school B as a sensible choice that they can send all their kids to as and when the time comes.

When the family in question have extra issues to deal with around security and publicity a campus-style boarding school is a better daily environment than a day school.

Marlborough seems like a perfectly rational choice to me and describing it as a "snub" to eton is just stupid journalism because the word is nice and short and the actual meaning of words unimportant to the rag in question.

I would have thought that with enough money you would pick schools that suited each child best which may not be the same school.

FloofCloud · 17/12/2023 10:40

Personally hate boarding school, but I guess he'll learn how to rub shoulders with 'commoners'
Thank god he's not going to Eton though - look how Harry, Bozza and David Cameron turned out 😱

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 10:50

I once went to an event at Marlborough and was surprised how scruffy it was inside - sports equipment was filthy. That was decades ago so it might have cleaned up its act.

YireosDodeAver · 17/12/2023 10:50

No amount of money can insulate you from the consequences when the school plays/concerts etc that you want to attend are scheduled for the same day at different schools. Plus some siblings actually like each other and want to be part of the same school community. Additionally given the security implications that this family have to deal with I see no reason to deliberately choose to multiply complications by needing to establish two or more different secure campuses if a single school that will suit all the children can be identified. Obviously if you have a child with very different needs you might send one to a different school but I would be trying to identify a single school if at all possible.

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 10:54

Have to laugh at this:

"Both Eton and Marlborough have similar application processes involving assessments and interviews that begin when pupils are George's age."

As if they'd reject his application!

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:30

The current head of Eton is certainly principled enough to refuse to make exceptions, if the tests (results just out) showed that a child, however titled, wouldn’t thrive.

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:32

Malborough will have a lower threshold, by some margin, so that there may well be no issue about tweaking the rules.

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 15:36

I would still be very surprised if any public school rejected a future king, no matter how principled the head. The head can't be that principled or he wouldn't be working in an elitist school like Eton.

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:37

Eton’s head would not make exceptions.

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 15:38

He's making exceptions every time he admits a paying pupil.

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:43

I see the point but if he’s not going to make exceptions to the admissions criteria then this would be the best possible example Simon Henderson could have. There’s a reason for the criteria - if a child won’t thrive and/ or Eton isn’t a good fit, then it’s in the child’s best interests (and the schools’) that the child goes elsewhere. The timing of the article is interesting.

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:44

Probably not that sensible tbh.

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:45

Anyhow, enough said.

Perfectlystill · 17/12/2023 15:46

ElfontheShelfIsWATCHINGYOUTOO · 17/12/2023 04:23

One would have thought he would be educated normally at a day school?

What on earth makes you think that?

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 15:51

goodbyestranger · 17/12/2023 15:43

I see the point but if he’s not going to make exceptions to the admissions criteria then this would be the best possible example Simon Henderson could have. There’s a reason for the criteria - if a child won’t thrive and/ or Eton isn’t a good fit, then it’s in the child’s best interests (and the schools’) that the child goes elsewhere. The timing of the article is interesting.

Yes, I take the point that there'd be no point admitting George if he was going to hate it there and beg to leave.

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Greatballzoffire · 17/12/2023 16:30

I wonder how happy the Marlborough parents will be? Apparently some Lambrook parents werent very happy when they joined...

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Perfectlystill · 17/12/2023 16:42

Greatballzoffire · 17/12/2023 16:30

I wonder how happy the Marlborough parents will be? Apparently some Lambrook parents werent very happy when they joined...

They will all be thrilled

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 17:20

One point of view is that it might save some money if all three end up at the same school - combining security arrangements and travel. That wouldn't be possible with single-sex Eton.

FloofCloud · 17/12/2023 17:39

ANightingale · 17/12/2023 10:50

I once went to an event at Marlborough and was surprised how scruffy it was inside - sports equipment was filthy. That was decades ago so it might have cleaned up its act.

Was it like St Trinians? 😳