Whether you knew it as a private school, an independent school or a public school – the terminology may have differed but the one thing that was common to all was that you – or rather your parents – paid fees.
So was it money well spent? If you can nod along to these things it was.
1. Your parents routinely told you how much they spent on fees
This was often held over your head along the lines of ‘if we’d not paid for you to go to school we could have bought a second home/gone on holiday/got grandma a new hip’.
You get one duff mark, fail one GCSE and the fee blackmail was rolled out.
2. There was… Read the full story