Why is Prince George not going to secondary school until after he turns 13?

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Prince William reveals Prince George, 12, is already boarding at £10,669-a-term Lambrook School mol.im/a/15846933 via https://dailym.ai/android

I saw this article in the DM saying Prince George is currently boarding at Lambrook "ahead of moving to his secondary school in September". He turns 13 in July so the thought occurred to me - why is he still in primary school? Should he not have started secondary in 2024 when he was 11?

He needs to be allowed to develop his circle of loyal friends that will be with him for life. I think this gives him the best chance at that. Plus he can do tea with Grandpa like his father did with QEII.

Eton is an extremely innovative school. Don't let the uniform put you off!

Yet according to Harry both he and William left without even a very basic grasp of what the Holocaust was

according to Harry

Hardly the most reliable of witnesses.

Do you think they didn't know that their own great-grandmother had sheltered a Jewish family in occupied Athens, and within their own lifetimes was honoured for it by the Israeli and British governments?

@floatinginacoolpool Blaming Eton and his brother for his own very stupid decision as an adult to wear a Nazi uniform to a party tells you everything you need to know about Harry.

I don’t.

How can it be innovative when it deals with the top 2 percent of the population?
Do they visit a few poor people every so often in the local schools?

Exactly. No prep schools for them.

Let me guess? You bring in food from home for hungry kids too.

Yes. Communism always means everyone is equal - except for the elite. No communist regime in history has ever not had extremely privileged leaders/ army to enforce the regime and subjugate the population.

@bafta16 Eton is a school that offers quite a bit of detail on its website. It costs nothing to read it. Why not give that a try - then you can snipe with more authority:

https://www.etoncollege.com/

(The Eton Outwards section of the menu might address your recent query. But the rest is of interest too. Please read it - I’m the last person they’d want attempting to be a balanced voice in this conversation.)

Eton was one of the very first schools to ban smartphones and social media for junior pupils - long before Starmer jumped on the bandwagon.

This is an innovation that any school in the country could adopt if they chose - it costs nothing except strong leadership and parental buy in.

Honestly, there are much worse things in life and far worse jobs. Right now, so many people in the UK are struggling just to meet their basic needs. It sounds incredibly out of touch to complain that changing outfits and switching up hairstyles for a weekly calendar is some sort of agonizing downside to an ultra-luxurious lifestyle. Sure, that life has its actual psychological downsides, but having to look put-together for a few hours while living in absolute privilege definitely isn't one of them, it's just their basic job and easier than many other people's careers.

Ps: It’s also a shame about George going to Eton. I really hoped he’d go to a more worldly school like the Danish kids, but William and Catherine seem determined to stick to the most antiquated, traditionalist route possible

Or maybe they want him nearby ? In comparison to William’s parents , he and Catherine seem to be very involved parents . No packing their DC off to boarding school at 7/8. No live in staff etc etc.

No live in staff that’s a joke they all just live in the cottages next door. They just pack them off to boarding school at 13. The narrative they are normal parents is getting really tiresome they are not normal far from it. I’m surprised the royalists aren’t getting fed up of trying to make out that they are.

No one has said ‘normal’ - it’s always the anti monarchists who bang on about that word.

They didn't. It was me. 😂 relax !

Lol this has to be the funniest thing I have read. Innovative because it banned phones...before they existed this was how schools were. Whats so innovative about that? 🙄

@LipglossAndLies I can’t work out if you are thick, or just ignorant.

If you are the first to try a certain approach to solve a current problem, that’s an innovation.
There are companies who have made millions with expensive “innovative solutions” to the well documented harm caused by a decade plus of smartphones in schools to a whole generation of kids who don’t know anything different. Just because an approach is low tech - ban them - does not make it any less innovative.

Do you understand what live in means ? You say the staff live in other houses so of course they don’t live in !

Eton was one of the very first schools to ban smartphones and social media for junior pupils

I should imagine that's another attraction for any high profile family. Less worry that their son will be covertly filmed or photographed at school.

And any parent who thinks the rule doesn't apply to their child can be politely shown the door.

I understand the distinction. My point is that removing phones isn't a novel idea it's a return to how schools operated for decades. Calling it "innovative" feels like marketing language for reinstating an older approach.

Its not new.

Why would I need more detail? It a school for extremely rich boys/ young men.
Out of reach for 95% of people.
A place which breeds confidence, entitlement, opportunities and connections.

A place which breeds confidence, entitlement, opportunities and connections.
@bafta16 if you meet someone and discover they were privately educated, do you tell them what you think of them?

But if you know even one percent more than you do, you’d be able to excoriate it so much more cogently.

Are you scared to read the website in case you find it’s not all exactly as you expected, @bafta16?

Sometimes?