This is one reason why my kids go to private schools. I would it were otherwise; but I believe in education for its own sake and to a high standard.
I’ve seen the way things are going. The best place to sit out the next few years is to be right next to a large pile of money; and to have the wit to use it to your advantage. But I think it will help if you are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian.
I’m trying hard to be in none of those categories. Not completely successful as yet, but I’ll give it a go.
I want nothing in common with the sort of people who will ignore the needs of society for some short-term gain; I’ve met a few of them, and I’m still trying to get over it. I’m also coming to the conclusion that I want nothing to do with what feminists rightly call the patriarchy.
Nevertheless I want my kids to be educated not just properly, but in a place of educational excellence. I don’t care about snobbery excepting as an Edwardian parlour game. I do care about children’s intellects; and kids need to be in places that nurture, or even stretch them.
I’ll be surprised if H gets a scholarship, because he’s a lazy blighter. That happens. So I’ll live on baked beans and dry bread for a few years to ensure his fees can be paid. Just so he can waste it all on being a guitarist professional gamer, or whatever creative way is currently in vogue by which we can waste our expensive educations.
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Date: 2019-07-08 09:36 am (UTC)I’ve seen the way things are going. The best place to sit out the next few years is to be right next to a large pile of money; and to have the wit to use it to your advantage. But I think it will help if you are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian.
I’m trying hard to be in none of those categories. Not completely successful as yet, but I’ll give it a go.
I want nothing in common with the sort of people who will ignore the needs of society for some short-term gain; I’ve met a few of them, and I’m still trying to get over it. I’m also coming to the conclusion that I want nothing to do with what feminists rightly call the patriarchy.
Nevertheless I want my kids to be educated not just properly, but in a place of educational excellence. I don’t care about snobbery excepting as an Edwardian parlour game. I do care about children’s intellects; and kids need to be in places that nurture, or even stretch them.
I’ll be surprised if H gets a scholarship, because he’s a lazy blighter. That happens. So I’ll live on baked beans and dry bread for a few years to ensure his fees can be paid. Just so he can waste it all on being a
guitaristprofessional gamer, or whatever creative way is currently in vogue by which we can waste our expensive educations.