Ever felt like the poor relation?

Person_one

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Nope, I'm female! My brother went to Westminster, though.

Oops! You can tell I don't move in the right circles! I thought Westminster allowed girls, vaguely remembered seeing some on that BBC documentary a while back, must have been a different school.

Has your brother benefitted from the advantages of going to Westminster?

neverdespairgirl

Person_one wrote: »

Oops! You can tell I don't move in the right circles! I thought Westminster allowed girls, vaguely remembered seeing some on that BBC documentary a while back, must have been a different school.

Has your brother benefitted from the advantages of going to Westminster?

Westminster is boys-only up to GCSE. They do take some girls in the 6th form, though. But not in the rest of the school.

My brother did get lots of benefits from going to Westminster. He could be (when a teenager) a lazy little sod, and it was good for him to be at a school where the teachers didn't accept any slacking and the general standard was high and the other boys were working hard. Helped him keep his end up.

He liked the school, which was also a positive thing.

Some of his mates came from extremely wealthy families, so he's had some free ski-ing holidays at mates' parents' luxury ski chalet, and a stay in a massive pad in Hong Kong.

But what he's not got out of it is some open-sesame network in relation to jobs, universities, careers, etc.

j.e.j.

aliasojo wrote: »

I went to a private primary school but secondary was a comprehensive and that's when I started losing interest and going downhill. It was more fun watching the bad lads in the class shutting the teacher in the cupboard than it was paying attention to my work.

I wonder if I'm a product of my environment too. :think: Do you think people achieve more if they are surrounded by higher standards?

.. same here! Private primary school, comprehensive school from age 11. The difference in standards was really noticeable, - at first I felt the work was too easy, and the behaviour of the kids at the comp was of course much rowdier, like you say!

I think that if I'd stayed in the Private school system I'd undoubtedly have had a higher academic record, but would I have been happy.. I don't know. There tends to be a certain type of person you get at private school, doesn't there, and I am not that type of person