Why the private school hate?

Yes and the stereotypes are based on extremes - the most elite private schools are very expensive and their students are typically more wealthy (I know from personal experience ) and the poorest state schools are presumably very poor. When people casually think of private school, they think of Eton toffs, not ordinary workaday private schools with moderate fees that many more people could afford if they did not prioritise new cars, bigger houses, foreign holidays, etc.

You say that you attend one of the best state schools in the country? It sounds like your trying to make yourself seem privileged or better than others. That isn't a personality difference though is it?

If we're talking personality then I can bash state school pupils just as much. I could say that almost all criminals, teenage-preggers, government welfare leeches, people with ASBOS and generally everyone that is considered a bad person are state-school educated...but I'm not

Exactly. However, chances are you'll be unaware and shielded from these kind of people. You're portraying them all in a completely negative light because of the environment you've been in, you don't understand their situations. I'm not saying it's solely your private-school background that gives you these views, obviously, some of my best friends go to private schools. I do believe, however, that attending an exclusive school filled with people similar to you can (not does) give you a warped view on the world which I don't agree with.

I think people are generally just jealous and naive to what private education actually brings. I went to private school - Didn't do so well due to a number of reasons but there is some like expectation that people at private school have there work done for them .. .. .. I certainly know from where I went to school this was not the case - (My brother went to state school).

I've noticed from uni that there are a certain type of people which have a problem with privately educated children - Do I care? No. My father worked tirelessly to be able to give me the opportunities I have had in life - And what does my dad do? No, he's not a banker, No he's not a retail genius, He tarmacs roads, and has been doing that since he was 14 years old - its nothing you need to go to university to do, you just need to be bothered to get off your ass - just as my brother is now doing. Neither of my parents have GCSES or Alevels.

There were a lot of children (well a lot for a school of 450 pupils from 3-18) at my school who were from 'poor' backgrounds who had got into school because of scholarships - These things are there for a reason, to allow children who can't afford to go the chance - Will it give you a better education? I'm hesitant to agree - You reap the rewards that you sow, If you do no effort, in either private or state you won't get anything out of it. The only thing private school does give is extra chances to do things such as travel, learn musical instruments and other things - Probably more so on the sporting front as well.

Life's a bitch - some people make it and some people don't, some people resent they didn't make it and become this little ball of jealously and anger and some people accept the situation, But I refuse to believe that if someone was in a position to they would give there children every opportunity that they could afford - Coming from a rich OR a poor background. It's extremely funny how peoples views change when there circumstances do.

I'm not convinced it's the schools, or just the schools, that give their students those outlooks. Don't forget, people who go to posh or as you put it "exclusive" private schools often come from quite (or very) wealthy backgrounds and they have the influence of their parents, friends, etc. I went to an "exclusive" (or often thought to be) girls boarding/day school. The school really tried hard to educate us not to think that way, eg, not to assume superior attitudes, etc, we had a link for example with several state schools and spent time with them doing extra tuition work for them as older girls - we did voluntary work. Some of the girls in the school did have rather superior attitudes, but I don't think they got them from the school.