People who (like me) went to decent universities and so get to sit at the top of a chronically unfair job market would be better off not moaning about how hard done by they were relative to others at those universities, would just be my take
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As we all know, it's very possible to have gone to a state school and to have done quite well out of it. It doesn't need to come out every results day, especially not today
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Also, having been to a state school does not in fact designate that one grew up on the streets, it's something nearly all of us did including most middle class people
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Found after I started at the Guardian, the most vocal I-went-to-state-schoolers either went to grammars or state schools that were private via postcode.
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When at Oxford I always reckoned I could spot someone from a grammar school because they said they went to a state school. People who went to a comp tended to say just that.
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One of my English teachers had taught at the school when it was a grammar, and he missed few opportunities to complain about the change. (He was pretty good though, and occasionally even now I hear him saying "time is getting on".)
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Only thing I have to compare is that my sixth form school had a slightly fancy building and we were told this was "because it was a former grammar" and this meant nothing to us.
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