Yet More Tripe

[Jackdaw33]

...from the PC brigade

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44075878

[naomi24]

//Is this school pupil snobbery a modern thing.//

One-upmanship isn't confined to schools. It's permeating every aspect of life now. Sad that so many feel compelled to compete.

[Sqad]

danny...you may have a point, I was at Grammar school in the late 40's and early fifties and there certainly was no snobbery that i encountered but perhaps i was thick skinned ;-)
There certainly was" inverted snobbery" from the boys who failed the 11+ to get to grammar schools.

Over the past half a century possibly die to the Welfare State, which promised to look after you from cradle to grave, people's expectations were unrealistic and accepting the concept that everyone is equal.

[andres]

School nowadays is a vastly different place to how it used to be. Can you remember the days when you woke with a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach because it was the day of a test or exam and you knew you should have done more preparation? No matter how you pleaded to stay at home your mother made you go. Nowadays some kids have that feeling everyday only ten times worse. They dread school . Not because of the lessons but they know they are going to be bullied. Bullied on a daily basis for not having all the things that have been mentioned. They get mocked for having dirty clothes, being smelly because they probably haven't had a wash that morning.They might be hungry because their parents either couldn't be bothered to get up or sometimes there may not be any food in the house. No money for school trips.The other kids pick on them ,isolate them and make their schooldays a hell on earth. It's no good saying that they should stand up to the bullies. That's easier said than done . Not much point if there are a dozen or more picking on you.
The UK has become a much more materialistic society over the last forty or so years. It's now reflected in our children's attitudes towards each other. I wish we could turn the clock back but that's asking the impossible. Upsets me a lot to think of the misery some kids are going through.

[youngmafbog]

This never happened t my school. As I was privately educated uniform was rigorously enforced and that included PE kit books pens and everything. If parents objected they were told to remove their child.

And thats the way it should be in all schools. So I actually agree with this lady banning the pencil cases - and anything else that gives one-upmanship.

[rowanwitch]

I was one of the poor kids, rarely time for breakfast until I was old enough to make it myself, school uniform was issued by the council from a big warehouse as a one off. Then it was the cheapest option mum could manage. My grandparents bought me a proper brief case for my school books so I was tormented for that as well. Wearing glasses, wearing a proper bra from age 10, not having a bike,roller skates , or any of the in stuff. In a way though I turned it around hiding in quiet corners reading I learnt a lot more, and I was pretty bright so I had my revenge in class. But it seems a hundred times worse now, I don't know how some parents manage. Actually I do as at least one friend opted for bankruptcy after over buying on multiple credit cards feeding her son's insatiable appetite for the latest stuff.

[Sqad]

YMG

"and anything else that gives one-upmanship."

Such a s"private education?"