going private . . .

[Mich the Tester]

If done properly it teaches you how to lose gracefully too. An important skill. Learning how to assess your performance to improve. Learning how success comes from endeavour. Removes the idea of entitlement.

Yep. Triumph and disaster those two impostors and all that.

[Churchill]

Yep. Triumph and disaster those two impostors and all that.

He makes exceedingly good cakes.

[Mich the Tester]

He makes exceedingly good cakes.

Leave them alone, they're for me.

[Churchill]

He makes exceedingly good cakes.

Leave them alone, they're for me.

What did Mummy say about sharing?

[Arturo Bassick]

He makes exceedingly good cakes.

I don't know, I have never kippled.

[Mich the Tester]

What did Mummy say about sharing?

She said it's a disgusting pinko lefty socialist idea, while telling me to buy my own bloody chablis.

[Churchill]

She said it's a disgusting pinko lefty socialist idea, while telling me to buy my own bloody chablis.

I think we may be related...

[Mich the Tester]

I think we may be related...

Northern tory women make the Daily Wail look like Pravda.

[DieScum]

I'd like to send my kids private if I ever have any.

I went to a comp in a small town. Wasn't a terrible school but I don't have anything to compare it with. From age 5 to age 16 the normal class size was 30. In the last year if you chose an unpopular subject you could get a class of fewer than ten.

Some of the teachers weren't very good and there were entire top stream classes that didn't register a single A in some subjects.

There was a limited choice of subjects.

There wasn't much extra-curricular stuff.

So I think we could do a bit better than that.

The cost, however, is problematic.

Imagine my surprise when my current girlfriend dropped, from nowhere, in to conversation that her brother was going to send his kids private and it would be paid for by her family trust fund. Um, what? You have a family trust fund?

[Mich the Tester]

I'd like to send my kids private if I ever have any.

I went to a comp in a small town. Wasn't a terrible school but I don't have anything to compare it with. From age 5 to age 16 the normal class size was 30. In the last year if you chose an unpopular subject you could get a class of fewer than ten.

Some of the teachers weren't very good and there were entire top stream classes that didn't register a single A in some subjects.

There was a limited choice of subjects.

There wasn't much extra-curricular stuff.

So I think we could do a bit better than that.

The cost, however, is problematic.

Imagine my surprise when my current girlfriend dropped, from nowhere, in to conversation that her brother was going to send his kids private and it would be paid for by her family trust fund. Um, what? You have a family trust fund?

You mean you grew up without a family trust fund? My dear fellow, how DID you cope? Did you have nutritional deficiencies too?