[Angus]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I agree with you. Private education doesn't mean you are middle class.

I grew up in early years in a council estate with absolutely nothing, with parents who worked like dogs.

A change in family circumstances meant that I latterly benefitted from private education - but I was still from working class background.

Now? Far as I'm concerned, still working class. Might have the nice house, nice car, good job, reasonable salary that allows the trapping of 'middle class lifestyle', - but I work for an employer - may be a white collared worker, but even so.... that I still consider 'working class'.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6295743.stm

These days more and more working class kids get the chance of a private education. Both my sons went to private schools from age 11 - the eldest one in 1996 when he got a then Assisted Place and the youngest three years later on a full scholarship. If they had not gone to private schools, they both had grammar school places as back up.