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Georgewhitt said:
Right.
I'm from Hetton. Dad was down the pit. Mam was a cleaner. I joined the Royal Navy. Did 10 years. Came out and made a life for myself and my family.
My son and eldest daughter went to Public School on the back of the f***ing hard work me and my wife did.
He is now a Commander in the Royal Navy, having started as an ordinary rating, and my Daughter is successful in her chosen career.
The inverted f***ing snobbery around this is f***ing deplorable.
Get your head out of your arse, and stop repeating the ignorant shite you've been f***ing spoonfed, and at least make an educated assessment before you show your entrenched, 19th century, bigotted views.
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Your kids wen to Eton?
 
Georgewhitt said:
Right.
I'm from Hetton. Dad was down the pit. Mam was a cleaner. I joined the Royal Navy. Did 10 years. Came out and made a life for myself and my family.
My son and eldest daughter went to Public School on the back of the f***ing hard work me and my wife did.
He is now a Commander in the Royal Navy, having started as an ordinary rating, and my Daughter is successful in her chosen career.
The inverted f***ing snobbery around this is f***ing deplorable.
Get your head out of your arse, and stop repeating the ignorant shite you've been f***ing spoonfed, and at least make an educated assessment before you show your entrenched, 19th century, bigotted views.
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If your son worked his way up from an ordinary rating to a Commander in the Royal Navy, it sounds like he's bright enough to have done this with a state education.

What point are you making?
 
tiptoad said:
If your son worked his way up from an ordinary rating to a Commander in the Royal Navy, it sounds like he's bright enough to have done this with a state education.

What point are you making?
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The inverted snobbery around people who attend public school. It says it in the post.
Not all kids there are from landed gentry. Some, like mine are from hard working, working class families.
 
Georgewhitt said:
The inverted snobbery around people who attend public school. It says it in the post.
Not all kids there are from landed gentry. Some, like mine are from hard working, working class families.
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You haven't explained how he's benefitted from the fortune his education cost. Like I said, he sounds a bright lad who would have got where he is with a free education.
 
EDGE said:
You believe having Public (Private) Schools are a good thing?
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Yes. They are funded by parents who send them there. They are not a drain on the exchequer, and the parents that send the kids there, still pay taxes etc, to fund the state school system. Where is the issue?
 
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They are being very careful in what they are saying. That terminology doesn’t specifically rule out selling them…

Also there are 40 in other Eastern European countries who were also originally willing to give them up
 
Georgewhitt said:
Yes. They are funded by parents who send them there. They are not a drain on the exchequer, and the parents that send the kids there, still pay taxes etc, to fund the state school system. Where is the issue?
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You don't think they breed an elite where certain jobs are "meant" for the people who attended private school?
 
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