Public vs Grammar vs Comprehensive

I attended a public, selective grammar school and a comprehensive school previously. The two schools were worlds apart, the differences were vast. My experience has taught me a very important lesson, and that is to NEVER, under ANY circumstances, send a child to a comprehensive school because generally speaking, these types of schools tend to attract vast numbers of people who come from low social class backgrounds. We're talking about thugs and all kinds of bratty teenagers, people who bully others, people who abuse teachers, people who disrupt the class environment. I have to be fair however, because the quality of the teaching at my comprehensive school was very good, it wouldn't be fair of me to take issue with that. However, my experience there has scarred me for life and has left me utterly bitter and very hateful towards delinquent children from low social classes who come to school to bully people, abuse teachers and disrupt learning. These juvenile delinquents need to be segregated and sent to special schools where they won't be able to ruin the school experience for civilised people who actually want to get something out of school.

My experience at the grammar school was exemplary, I cannot think of a single negative experience during my years there. Immediately I was able to see a huge difference in the standards of achievement, behaviour and civility. I can't emphasise just how vast the difference was between the two schools that I attended.

I'm happy to say that I've learned a very important life lesson. Comprehensive schools must be avoided like the plague. I feel very strongly on this topic, I have immense hatred for misbehaved schoolkids. I hate them with a passion, with every fibre of my being.

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Comprehensive because the other 2 are filled with toffs who don't live in the real world and would get their heads kicked in if they went to a comprehensive

Some people think that sending their kids to a top state school or a top/posh private school will make the kids smarter because of the smaller class size and teacher/pupil contact time. That is not the case. My parents have friends who co own a business that is doing very well. Before we moved my sister was in school with one couple's son (same class) and when we moved to our new school she was in a class with the other couple's daughter. The first couple took their son out of the primary school and put him a very expensive and high performing private school. Poor kid hated it there because he was not as clever as the other kids and just could not keep up with the workload and nightly homework. He lasted about six months before going back to the local primary school. I have heard of plenty more cases like that as well.


I would like my kids to go to a top school but I have no problem with them going to the state schools either.

I have immense hatred for bullies as well. Picking on someone, for most of the times, for no good reason. What a life!! Good thing some of them end up in jail and I think all of them should. Aren't you are bound to find some bullies in public and grammar schools though?

What are the main differences between a public school/sixth form

and a grammar school/sixth form.

Comprehensive because the other 2 are filled with toffs who don't live in the real world and would get their heads kicked in if they went to a comprehensive

With all respect that is just anecdotal evidence.

Kids who go to top public schools generally do better than kids who go to a comp. I was speaking to an Etonian couple months back who said every year they send over a 100 boys to Oxbridge. Children don't necessarily go into Eton smart, but after 7 years of top teaching they come out of it with the kind of mind that just does well in life. This is true for all the top public schools, and most private institutions in general.
Grammar schools do better than a lot of independents, but that's because the kids there were more clever in the first place.

I go to a grammar school and lel you're so wrong.

Having been to comprehensive from the start up until year 12 before moving to a grammar school, grammar is much better. The teaching is generally better (however there's always exceptions), and you're surrounded by students who do well and generally go to a good university. For the bit that matters, education, grammar schools are a much better environment to be in.

That said it might be even better going private, but I've never been to a private school. The fact that you pay for your education probably means it's better, but I think grammars usually perform better on the whole

Do you think that one advantage of public schools over grammar schools is the networking? Good networking can strongly enhances someone's chances of a better career.

It's not just that their toffs, It's also the lack of knowledge in common acronyms of slang. Slang acronyms is pretty much a big aspect of today's society;
lol =/= lots of love
lol = laugh out loud

I go to a grammar school and lel you're so wrong.

Having been to comprehensive from the start up until year 12 before moving to a grammar school, grammar is much better. The teaching is generally better (however there's always exceptions), and you're surrounded by students who do well and generally go to a good university. For the bit that matters, education, grammar schools are a much better environment to be in.

That said it might be even better going private, but I've never been to a private school. The fact that you pay for your education probably means it's better, but I think grammars usually perform better on the whole

You are of course correct, I imagine it's possible to find examples of bad behaviour even in some of the more highly regarded schools. My severe experience has clouded my judgment on this topic, it's a topic that I feel very strongly about. As I pointed out before, I did not encounter a single instance of bullying, disruptive behaviour or any sort of uncivilised act in the grammar school that I attended, while I was bullied daily at my former school and targeted by large gangs of very dangerous thugs. It was five years of hell, no word of a joke.

It's every parent's responsibility to make sure that they are sending their child to a school where they won't suffer a horrible ordeal each day. Parents from deprived, low social class backgrounds can continue to send their chav children to rough comprehensive schools, I do not object to that. However, people from the civilised portion of society should make every effort to avoid those very schools that attract the vermin of society. People do not approve of a divided society with an upper class and a lower class, but I object to this view. I think society needs more division. By widening the gulf between the lower classes and the upper class, it's possible to maintain high standards in the latter and to preserve their wellbeing and to create a better world for them, a better life.

Our language is already impoverished enough. There's nothing more unattractive than seeing a bunch of hoodrats speak slang language and smoke weed taking pictures in their car.

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Do you think that one advantage of public schools over grammar schools is the networking? Good networking can strongly enhances someone's chances of a better career.

Yeh so true but it can be a bit funny sometimes when some posh individuals are unable to understand some of the stuff that these working class lads say. It can actually be really annoying when the slang, along with the style of speaking, goes too far.