Nah, you just befriend the right parents and make sure your kids hang out with theirs outside of school.
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Yes, that's true. Despite having sent my son to precisely the sort of school they are targeting, I actually have sympathy for the idea that they should be abolished. The state school system in Surrey is much worse than in Kent or Essex because the proliferation of private schools here means the state school system is deprived of many of its best students. Which then makes parents like me even more likely to send our children to private schools.
Would have been nice to save the £££ it cost me too. :-(
Well they used to fulfil the charitable aspect of their status by providing far more assisted places to students. Three guesses which party abolished that in 1997.
What with that and destroying grammar schools, it's almost like Labour just want to keep poor people poor, isn't it?
My main school head-master was a former England rugby captain. Most boring cünt on the planet. I'd have thought rugby boys would be entertaining - one of our prep school masters had some U21 caps, which he showed us, and he was a laugh.
But the ex-captain was so dull it was unbelievable. Still, they've let in girls now and changed the motto so fück 'em.
I demanded to leave public school after o-levels and went to Reigate 6th form college. It was ace. In history, there were only 7 of us at the start and just 4 by upper 6th. As the 3 girls were quite quiet, I basically got 1-to-1 tuition, as I did for my two S-levels.
And Reigate's in Surrey. I think.
I chose to stay in state school in Surrey, hindsight tells me that was ****ing dumb and my parents should never have given me the choice!!
That said, my recent inheritance would have been quite so substantial, so every cloud and all that