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Public School Pupils!

Do people from public schools annoy you because they ar so far up their own arse, and believe that they are better than everyone else!

P.s For all you toffs out there I am not a "chav" i live in the countryside and i simply am a proud working class man! (by the way i apologise to those public school pupils who do not follow the above trend)

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Reply 1

What's Chico Time Precious?

no, not really. They can do what they want, doesn't bother me what they think of me or anyone else.

Reply 2

M-J

no because none of my friends are up thier own ass.....to my knowlage.

Reply 3

Inverurie Jones

Brooksey

i simply am a proud working class man!

Proud of it???

If anything the working classes (if they can truly be said to even exist anymore) are 'up their own arses' as they seem to revel in a sort of cultivated ignorance.

Reply 4

silver~planet

Brooksey

That's a ridiculous stereotype :mad:

... I've been to public schools for most of my education til now (currently go to state 6th form college) and public school people are just as worthy and human as anybody else.
Sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone. I just get fed up of the unfair stereotypes surrounding public school people. (and yes, I am aware that there are some who are up their own arses and think they're better than other people... but that applies to people of all backgrounds and education)

Reply 5

Ribomania

silver~planet

That's a ridiculous stereotype :mad:

Thank you! :biggrin:

This is the shittest thread ever, :mad:

we r not up our own asses. As far as i know i'm relatively normal. I am in fact not too well off, i have a Dfes arts/music scholarship a boarding scholarship and a full academic so i pay £600 a year in total. I'm at Wells Cathedral Specialist Music School.

Eton and Harrow boys r so stereotyped but so mny of them r normal, i've been at MUN and on music courses with them

:mad:

Go on like this and you won't have any friends. :mad:

Reply 6

F. Poste

Before I came to Oxford, I had a stupid assumption that public school people were somehow different. Now I have loads of friends whose education was paid for them and I've realised that my assumption WAS just that, a stupid assumption. There are SOME people who are very "rah" and have mummy and daddy paying their way for everything, but that isn't true of everyone going to public school. I've met loads of lovely people who were state educated and privately educated, and I've met plenty of people who are "so far up their own arse, and believe that they are better than everyone else" who go to state schools.

Reply 7

Mandy.Massey

Brooksey

just out of interest, what are your political leanings?

Reply 8

Ribomania

F. Poste

I'd like to thank all the posters who have discredited this thread and would like to ask for it to be shut moved or otherwise abolished (MODERATORS?)

Reply 9

littlemissmel

This is a bizarre thread. But like silver~planet I finished at Private School (an independant co-ed day school in Shoreham, Sussex) and have now gone to a 'state' college attached to a school in Steyning, Sussex. If anything I would say that I have a good understanding of the range of people in the world, the only reason I went in the private system was because when I was 5 I was told I was too difficult to handle because I had been taught to read and was ahead of the class. My mum is a support teacher at a private school and they let me go at a VERY reduced price.

I have been very lucky. At college, if anything I get discriminated for being privately educated - especially by the teachers who seem to think I shouldn't get free education if I have previously paid for it.

I'd like to point out that I am now learning to drive, work 17 hours a week and pay for everything (apart from food) out of my own pocked. My car, my insurance and my social life is worked for by me. It's fair after my mum sacrificed pretty much everything to school me privately. When people call privately educated people "up their own arse" I'd really like them to evaluate what they are saying - it's offensive, hurtful and uneducated to people like myself and my mum who work their 'arses' off to succeed. I'm sorry, but I'm not impressed.

Reply 10

F. Poste

littlemissmel

I'd like to point out that I am now learning to drive, work 17 hours a week and pay for everything (apart from food) out of my own pocked. My car, my insurance and my social life is worked for by me. It's fair after my mum sacrificed pretty much everything to school me privately. When people call privately educated people "up their own arse" I'd really like them to evaluate what they are saying - it's offensive, hurtful and uneducated to people like myself and my mum who work their 'arses' off to succeed. I'm sorry, but I'm not impressed.

Loads of my privately educated friends partially or wholly support themselves through uni too, so I think the myth that they ALL get mummy and daddy's money is *******s!

Reply 11

Golden Maverick

F. Poste

Loads of my privately educated friends partially or wholly support themselves through uni too, so I think the myth that they ALL get mummy and daddy's money is *******s!

I've found that state educated uni students in general care more about where people went to school than privately educated ones.

Reply 12

F. Poste

Golden Maverick

I've found that state educated uni students in general care more about where people went to school than privately educated ones.

This could be true generally, because I know that for me, having never met anyone from a public school, it was more of a mysterious thing and all I knew was the stereotypes. Now I know they're largely *******s, I don't care. The mystique has gone.

Reply 13

Checking for Spies

I'm gonna sit on the fence an say that there is a certain minority of both public and state school students who are completely up themselves! True some public school pupils probably do look down on state school students, but state pupils do it as well when they claim that public school pupils all have an unfair advantage over them...some people are naturally clever you know! x

Reply 14

What's Chico Time Precious?

Golden Maverick

I've found that state educated uni students in general care more about where people went to school than privately educated ones.

Yeah I've also found this, I was state educated and I really honestly don't care myself. We've all managed to get to uni one way or another and thats the important thing. Some of my friends who are state educated seem to have issues (minor but still) with other friends just over their background and schooling, pathetic or what?! :rolleyes:

If people can afford to send their children to private and public schools then bloody well let them, their own choice. My parents would have sent me to one if we could have afforded it, but I turned out alright in the end, i think/hope.

Reply 15

LawQueen

Inverurie Jones

Proud of it???

If anything the working classes (if they can truly be said to even exist anymore) are 'up their own arses' as they seem to revel in a sort of cultivated ignorance.

Good point.
People who are rich tend to try and pass themselves off as working-class as it's something to be more proud off.
I went to a public school and I'm not a toff-as applies to my friends.

Reply 16

LawQueen

Absolution

Hehe-exactly in uni I'm assuming no-one would really care.

Reply 17

oldy

I'm not bothered about Public School vs state particulaly and I've been in state education all my life. What does annoy me are spoilt rich kids who take large amounts of money for granted.