jackieguaccamo
Flat Earther
and send your children to a fee paying private school?
Good point. I'm not great at politics.Why would you use the term “true Labour supporter” in the question. Not sure if you’re suggesting that Labour has socialist values or policies. If you are then you’re very much mistaken. I’d word it “if you’re a socialist can you still send your children to a fee paying school” which I would answer in my opinion yes.
Cuz the answer 'yes' is locked in the hypothetical. The way you answer it, has to be a yes.Why would you use the term “true Labour supporter” in the question. Not sure if you’re suggesting that Labour has socialist values or policies. If you are then you’re very much mistaken. I’d word it “if you’re a socialist can you still send your children to a fee paying school” which I would answer in my opinion yes.
Reality is you have to work with the system to work against it. They’ve got you by the balls, you have to slowly slowly loosen they grip before you pull their hands away otherwise they’re taking your balls with them.Cuz the answer 'yes' is locked in the hypothetical. The way you answer it, has to be a yes.
I guess what Jackie is asking is, taking away some of that hypothetical, and getting back to a country like Britain, with all of its historical baggage, with its dumbass party system, AND, if you've played that game, profited from it, and you like to get yourself a beer and rant about the system, gabbering on about how this is wrong, and we must end all inequality, but you don't really mean any of it, even if you think you do, can you be seen to be the pathetic douchebag that you actually are?
The answer's yes.
Not an answer to the question, but I am struck by the fact that the 4 of my close friends who boarded at independent schools all regard Labour as disappointingly right wing. The guy who was a day boy more centrist/moderate conservative.and send your children to a fee paying private school?
Ah that slowly loosening grip. Which comes with years with upscale apartments, dinner invitations, weddings, parties, interviews, compromises and a whole bunch of stuff that you like. You really like. That you don't want to give up.Reality is you have to work with the system to work against it. They’ve got you by the balls, you have to slowly slowly loosen they grip before you pull their hands away otherwise they’re taking your balls with them.
It’s about putting right from the bottom up not from the top down.Ah that slowly loosening grip. Which comes with years with upscale apartments, dinner invitations, weddings, parties, interviews, compromises and a whole bunch of stuff that you like. You really like. That you don't want to give up.
You know the rest.
Where would you educate all the posh kids?I personally think fee-paying schools should be abolished
Are you talking about Eton?It’s about putting right from the bottom up not from the top down
Where would you educate all the posh kids?
What about the income from foreign kids?
The people getting the incomeWho cares about income from foreign kids
Do they have the capacity?In schools with all the other kids.
The people getting the income
Do they have the capacity?
Three of my friends who boarded were definitely not from rich families (I think one had had but then lost money), and none of them were left-wing families. Two of their fathers were regular army officers, one a Conservative MP, the other was what you might call impoverished gentry. The guy who was a day boy was from a well-off family (he used to describe his father as being an arms dealer).Institutionalised?
Several of my friends who went to fee paying boarding schools are pretty seriously left wing. To be fair, they and their families are wealthy enough to be able to afford and indulge in such views.
Perhaps all that proves is that private schools do not quite have the universal effect on their pupils that is assumed. Like you, I found that their family backgrounds were mixed, a Labour Party minister (and later a Lord), several very well off business families and a very wealthy youngest son who was required to go to Sandhurst, to maintain family tradition.Three of my friends who boarded were definitely not from rich families (I think one had had but then lost money), and none of them were left-wing families. Two of their fathers were regular army officers, one a Conservative MP, the other was what you might call impoverished gentry. The guy who was a day boy was from a well-off family (he used to describe his father as being an arms dealer).
We could call it “levelling-up”. I’m sure Johnson would approve.Where would you educate all the posh kids?
What about the income from foreign kids?
Do you not consider streaming as being part of the same divisive system?I was lucky to be educated in a well run streamed state school in Leicestershire. No need for grammar schools or private achooling.
When I moved to Bournemouth and had my daughter I found they still have grammar schools.
There starts the eleven plus lottery. Luckily for her she got in, but I find the have / have not split they create abhorrent.
No, as the school itself runs a budget for all pupils who all have access to the same facilities.Do you not consider streaming as being part of the same divisive system?