Reply to: Private School Poll

[DimPrawn]

I went to a violent inner-city Comprehensive school.

More pupils left in a body-bag than left with a qualification.

[realityhack]

I was the first boy to successfully navigate through the security and sneak into the girl's house in the middle of the night - with inside help of course

I was lauded for being able to pick the Yale locks between the boys' and girls' dorms - and used to charge £10 a time to let people through! Such was my first foray into contracting.

[moorfield]

Mixed boarding schools FTW

No such luck, boys only school for me. And we only had ginger nuts and hot buttered crumpets to keep us occupied at night.

[Jog On]

I went to a boarding school and it was excellent.

I was the first boy to successfully navigate through the security and sneak into the girl's house in the middle of the night - with inside help of course

Mixed boarding schools FTW

[Pogle]

Village school til 9 - My Mum took me out as the school had me down as dim and it was only until I had an eye test that they realised I couldn’t actually see the black board!

My folks scrimped to send me to paid private convent school for two years which paid off as I got a scholarship to the senior school.

Nuns are evil and I hated it. I have no fond memories of school and only keep in touch with one other person who went there.

[DaveB]

Minor League Private school, 11-18, boarding the whole time. Hated it.

Notable previous inmates included :

Jeffrey Archer, claimed he went a similarly named but more prestigeous school elsewhere.

Keith Floyd.

David Suchet

[Pinto]

I had state school education until the age of 13, which is when I came to England. Here in the UK, I frequented a private boarding school until 18.
It was a bit of a culture shock at first, but ended up loving it.

[expat]

I went to a school that selected on pupil ability rather than parent money. It was only later that I found out the relative standing of these two aspects in society.

[minestrone]

As did I, mostly. Same one as you I suppose, as there is only one in scotland I think.

Instilled a deep rooted hatred of the scottish middle classes that I still can't quite get into perspective after 25 yrs. Shower of utter c***s.

Exactly the same feeling I gained from my incarceration there. I eventually told my parents that I was never going back no matter what they did.

It was a training school to build arseholes to go into a law degree. I now have a greater respect for folk who have made something from nothing rather than the "My daddy has a porsche and I want to be a Lawyer" ***** that the school produces.

[Rantor]

I went to a Jesuit school, they made the current pope look like a free thinking liberal.

As did I, mostly. Same one as you I suppose, as there is only one in scotland I think.

Instilled a deep rooted hatred of the scottish middle classes that I still can't quite get into perspective after 25 yrs. Shower of utter c***s.

[Jubber]

I take it this is now the thread.

I went but really hated it, an amazing amount of tossers.

I went (won a scholarship) but fookin' hated the Edwardian ethos. Teachers walking about in robes, big school, prefects, boat race .... all that old Bollox. I got expelled after a few years and went to the local comp. Didn't learn a thing but was like a breath of fresh air. Made it to a proper Uni too

I enjoyed the rugby though. Kept that up for many years after.

[minestrone]

I went to a Catholic school but I didn't go to church... now I feel guilty.

I went to a Jesuit school, they made the current pope look like a free thinking liberal.

[NotAllThere]

I went to progressive private school - teachers called by the first name, no prefects, no sports days. Enjoyed it, but was glad to get back to reality by going to the local sixth-form college.

A few reasonably well-known people from my time.

This pillock, who was a pillock then. Got done for VAT fraud.

Isla Blair's son.

Always was a bit of a flirt

Hello! photos of Zeta Jones.

[realityhack]

Yep - private school from 11 to 18 here. First one was a living hell, Lord Of The Flies kind of experience, second one was excellent, outstanding. Boarded from 15 to 18.

[gingerjedi]

I went to a Catholic school but I didn't go to church... now I feel guilty.