Why the private school hate?

How am I being prejudiced?!

This is such a sweeping generalisation, and more of a stereotypical view! How many Public school people do you actually know? very few if any I bet

Yeah this is very true, the competition at most private schools is very intense...whilst this is good cos it leads to people working very hard...it does mess with some peoples' minds.

By saying 'it's no wonder private school people don't want to mix'

I'm well prepared for neg rep because this seems to be a sensitive topic.

However, yesterday I was working in my college bar and two people started a conversation over the counter that baically consisted of;
"Yes, well as soon as I hear someone went to a private school I don't really like them"
"Me neither, I mean look at Sarah"
"I mean I wouldn't not be friends with them if I was already, but it would put me off them a lot, they're all so posh."

Now imagine I have a similar conversation;
"Yes, well as soon as I hear someone went to a state school I don't really like them"
"Me neither, I mean look at Sarah"
"I mean I wouldn't not be friends with them if I was already, but it would put me off them a lot, they're all so chavvy."

I wouldn't last five minutes.

I get asked what my school was all the time, and people really judge you, no matter that the top private schools are as different to the subsidised ones as grammar schools are from inner-city comprehensives. People go for all sorts of reasons (I was there on a scholarship, for example), and yes, this does involve luck, but state school does not necessarily equal 'poor'. I had friends who went on £2000 holidays every year and went to state schools. It's a matter of personal priorities in those many cases.

And even if someone does go on the basis of wealth, how can you possibly judge their personality on something as black and white as that? Assuming everyone at a private school owns a horse and knows nothing about the real world is as random as me assuming every state school pupil is a chav.

In summary;

I genuinely want to find out more about why people are so judgemental about what school you went to.

Disclaimer: I like everyone.

Well its true...people know that if they are going to encounter ill feeling, they aren't going to bother...it's horrible sometimes the way people react

i remember in my a level sociology class we had a girl that had come from a local private school to our comp 6th form.

my sociology teacher really wanted to send me on an exchange to the private school and bring a private girl to ours (not her choice as with the girl who chose our 6th form) id have loved it to happen, but it never did.

i was a very rowdy "bad" pupil at school so would not have fit in well...
would have been interesting though.


i guess alot of it is the class wars, as i am from a very working class background and half the time we couldnt even afford to buy food, so i cant see why people would want to pay for education (those that do) if you go on scholership then thats great, but i know a lad from our year that got a scholership at another local private school and he actually changed his personality, i used to have a laugh with him in school, and then after he went private he wouldnt even say hi in the streets... i could tell you another story of a different person the same...

so i dunno i guess it depends on the person...

Probably the most hypocritical statement ever.
Think what you are saying, and tell me does this not apply to the complete opposite?

the uni i went to had a high proportion of rahs. i am speaking from personal experience.

Jealousy obviously and rightly so.

My boarding days were some of the best of my life.

I don't understand how you cannot understand the point I'm making...

If I know theres a high chance that people will dislike me for the school I went to...why I am going to put myself in that situation over and over again?!

I don't see the point in having children if you're just going to send them to boarding school. Especially young children - so many ex-public schoolkids have said how it ****ed them up, being sent away to school as young as seven. It sounds like a form of abuse, and it's certainly something I don't envy.

But don't you see, they don't dislike you because of your school, but your instant opinion of them being jealous and disliking you because you're more privileged than them is definitely a key component in this. You are setting yourself up for failure, you are proving your own theory correcting by making it so.

I never take a dislikening for people because of their school, I don't give a damn, but I've most certainly taken a dislikening to you. The reason? Because you are prejudiced and won't even admit to it.
You practically just said that you wouldn't mix with people who don't attend private schools because they won't like you for it.

That is really quite infuriating.

In fact I have never come across anyone who went to public school who didnt enjoy their old school times.