| Public (Private) Schools are a load of old Crap by Ben Chandler I never thought I'd ever worry about being at public
school in a sociological way. But when you're 17- you start to smell
a rat. A lot of people who go to public school are snobs. All my old
best friends now seem like elitist tossers. The point I'm getting at
is WHY do public schools still exist. Yes, when I was 13 and all worried
about not getting 'discarded' or something like that, but now, having
looking back over my shoulder, it just hasn't really had a positive
influence. In 1997, Blair promised to improve education for all- and
to increase on public schools- hopefully with the aim of eventually
putting them into submission. But still the inbalance remains between
the priveliged and under-priveliged. And this causes complete social
shit. However much I wanna talk about union and togetherness, a working
class kid from Whitehawk or wherever (I live in Brighton) would still
have a go if I was in school uniform. It's a social divide which is
synonomous with pre-war social structure. Most other examples of basic
social injustice have been eradicated since then. The American education
system is the finest example of basic equal oppurtunity. The large majority
of 18 year olds have the chance of being considered for a superb university-
which is exciting to go to, apart from people within cultures who frown
on attending university. It is time to subscribe to common sense and
change the structure rather than trying to mould something out of a
previous system which has set into being bollocks. |
