I saw something rather shocking today...
Jul 30th 2010, 9:11 am
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Re: I saw something rather shocking today...
Hehe.
There's only one public school in the UK where I would allow myself to assume that all leavers have perfect mastery of the Queen's English and more relevant, use it at all times, and that's Winchester. The rest of us particularly the boys schools are a motley lot despite the avails of the faculty. My school did unfortunately score a bit higher on the academic scale than the social scale, but you'd be better off to look at the leading day schools especially the brainy London schools for shining examples of a public school education. There are boarding schools whose leavers still spell cat with a K decades later (Milton Abbey and Glenalmond comes to mind).
If you think I sound racist, rather a good thing you've never spent a night in a boy's boarding house....
There's only one public school in the UK where I would allow myself to assume that all leavers have perfect mastery of the Queen's English and more relevant, use it at all times, and that's Winchester. The rest of us particularly the boys schools are a motley lot despite the avails of the faculty. My school did unfortunately score a bit higher on the academic scale than the social scale, but you'd be better off to look at the leading day schools especially the brainy London schools for shining examples of a public school education. There are boarding schools whose leavers still spell cat with a K decades later (Milton Abbey and Glenalmond comes to mind).
If you think I sound racist, rather a good thing you've never spent a night in a boy's boarding house....
Jul 30th 2010, 10:13 am
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Re: I saw something rather shocking today...
I went to boarding school for seven years and I'm a liberal pansy with very good English skills. Maybe I was an exception.
Jul 30th 2010, 10:16 am
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Re: I saw something rather shocking today...
Hehe.
There's only one public school in the UK where I would allow myself to assume that all leavers have perfect mastery of the Queen's English and more relevant, use it at all times, and that's Winchester. The rest of us particularly the boys schools are a motley lot despite the avails of the faculty. My school did unfortunately score a bit higher on the academic scale than the social scale, but you'd be better off to look at the leading day schools especially the brainy London schools for shining examples of a public school education. There are boarding schools whose leavers still spell cat with a K decades later (Milton Abbey and Glenalmond comes to mind).
If you think I sound racist, rather a good thing you've never spent a night in a boy's boarding house....
There's only one public school in the UK where I would allow myself to assume that all leavers have perfect mastery of the Queen's English and more relevant, use it at all times, and that's Winchester. The rest of us particularly the boys schools are a motley lot despite the avails of the faculty. My school did unfortunately score a bit higher on the academic scale than the social scale, but you'd be better off to look at the leading day schools especially the brainy London schools for shining examples of a public school education. There are boarding schools whose leavers still spell cat with a K decades later (Milton Abbey and Glenalmond comes to mind).
If you think I sound racist, rather a good thing you've never spent a night in a boy's boarding house....
They tell you.
Jul 30th 2010, 7:10 pm
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Re: I saw something rather shocking today...
which would be pretty much the assets of a private school education (aside from taking it up the a*** from the 'bigger boys' on a regular basis).
Jul 31st 2010, 7:26 am
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Jul 31st 2010, 3:54 pm
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What I meant is, it's great to make jokes about what a rude bunch of people the locals are... until somoene makes some kind of counter argument. Then just ignore it, like they are ignoring the comment you made earlier, about your daughter.
Aug 1st 2010, 3:15 am
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Re: I saw something rather shocking today...
Butter says "Thank You" by helping your sore throat.
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Aug 2nd 2010, 10:34 am
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