I find it quite sad and actually ignorant that people assume that children that are privately educated automatically become snobbish, or in a 'bubble'. It just goes to show how much people don't know about private schools. I think sometimes people are actually quite jealous (i am not insinuating anyone here is jealous before anyone starts, BUT sometimes in 'real life' that's the reaction i get as people automatically seem to dismiss private education.)
I think that children will do the best they can in whatever school they are in. Nobody actually said that private schools are better in any way. I don't think they are 'better' just because i will be paying for it. They are not better than each other, they BOTH have their pro's and con's. I don't think it would be fair of me to say that children that go to state schools will have a shitty education because of huge classes or because of this and that, but it just isn't true. You cannot tar every school with the same brush. There's good in bad in ALL schools, smoking & drugs in all schools (predominantly private schools as the children are wealthy), plenty of good and bad going on everywhere.
Nobody should actually be bashing either side when they don't even know what they are talking about. Not everyone that goes to private school is a snobbish, up themselves arsehole who is better than anyone else. You get plenty of people that go to private school (like for me example, that actually rebel and don't get much out it - and that's down to my personality, i would have probably done the same in a s state school). However my brother is an ambitious hardworking soul who has done fabulously well in private education, BUT would have also done the same in a state school). My Dad grew up on one of the roughest shittiest council estates in Britain and went to really dreadful schools, never passed any exams, failed his 11+ but still worked damn hard and now writes software for Bill Gates. See, it's about personality & ambition, NOT school.
Our reasons simply are; smaller class size, more one-to-one attention, a say in what goes on, well-maintained and looked after school, excellent books and learning materials as the parent is paying for it all, and usually they do go to university - even the rebels! All round we just feel it's right for us, doesn't mean i think any child that goes to state school is a piece of shit and that Leni & I are better than them.
Anyway, what i am trying to say is; nobody said either school was better or worse than the another and nobody should be tarring anyone with the same brush. Kids that go to private school aren't snobby and better than everyone else, and kids that go to state schools are not under-privileged and will never go to University and fail.
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