rah girl rioter

Laura Johnson, the 19-year-old daughter of a successful company director. She lives in a detached converted farmhouse in Orpington, Kent, with extensive grounds and a tennis court.

She is an English and Italian undergraduate at Exeter, favourite of the Boden-wearing classes. Before that, she attended St Olave’s Grammar, the fourth-best state school in the country, and its sister school, Newstead Wood, gaining nine GCSE A grades and four A*s.

At St Olave’s, she studied A-levels in French, English literature, geography and classical civilisation. Yesterday, at Highbury, she was accused of something slightly less civilised – looting the Charlton Curry’s superstore of electrical goods worth £5,000.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8694494/UK-riots-David-Cameron-condemns-sick-society-as-grammar-school-girl-in-court-over-riots.html

...The awkward moment when you go onto the studentroom and find out that the rich rioter girl went to your secondary school and sixth form .

Gosh, the thread is alive with St Olavians! (If that's the correct name for them?)

What's it like at the school? Is there any gossip churning about Laura on the school tweeting mills?

Not really, no. I'm surprised actually! However, I wasn't even at the school at the same time as her. (Also yes that's the right name )

I genuinely can't get my head round what possessed her to do it.

What is it like at the school? Are there are other examples of dreadful behaviour from very wealthy girls there?

What is it like at the school? Are there are other examples of dreadful behaviour from very wealthy girls there?

Yeah I go there and am in the sixth form- she seems vaguely familiar to me. Really there is a pretty large gap in terms of how well of the people who go there are. You get peoiple like her, and then you get people who are definitiely working class.

The girls in general do drink in parties etc. and like to have a laugh. Some smoke, but this is a minority. I cannot think of many who would loot. On average, they seem to care quite a lot about academics and know their boundaries.

Those who get expelled are all boys.

Would you say our "heroine", Laura, is in amongst the wealthiest who go there, from what you can tell? Or are the affluent ones a pretty rich crowd? I get the impression that area is pretty wealthy generally, but like you say, contains areas that are not.

Her dad's a millionaire and her house looks huuugggeee!!

Sounds a little like you're saying the others have more of a reason to do it but I get where you're coming from . Silly silly girl... had so many amazing opportunities in life and she's blown them all

I suspect the attitude of Oxbridge colleges to this type of thing is based on arrogance, eg, screw the press, we are superior mortals and our students are precious darlings who, if they wish, may certainly commit whatever crimes they see fit, etc. Given that many Dons are hardly saintly characters themselves, they probably fear the escalator effect.

I don't understand why any university would necessarily expel a student for breaking the law: their punishment is given out by the courts, not their university.