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Originally Posted by dizzy bint

I spent the first 10 years of my life in a Council house with no bathroom, an outside toilet and no running hot water.

Then I spent from age 13 to age 16 at a fee paying all girl's boarding school.

There was no large jump in my parent's class in between, we were still working class. Many children go to private school when their parents go abroad to work or, in some cases, when they're in the armed forces.

I did not enjoy my time at private school and didn't send my children to one. However, I wouldn't advocate getting rid of them, people should have freedom of choice. All I would say is that they are, in my opinion, wasting their money.

Something you touched upon in your post. I also happened to attend an armed forces school abroad - and I loathed it, and the pupils there - who looked down on me.

I then attended private schooling, both abroad and back in the UK - and found a complete turn around from the students at the Army schools - they were far more welcoming than those children parents in the Armed Forces -both in school and out of.