I've been living in the UK 13 years and I've still not realised why we tolerate the absolute wankers that public* schools produce. Can somebody explain to be why we tolerate the upper middle class so much? *For non-UK people: NOT state schools. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) …
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I mean... "studies have shown that such schools still retain a degree of influence over the country's professional and social elite despite educating less than 10% of the population"
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"71% of senior judges, 62% of senior armed forces officers, 55% of Whitehall permanent secretaries and 50% of members of the House of Lords had been privately educated."
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And can we talk about "fags"? Younger boys serving older boys. "Under school rules, fagging might entail harsh discipline and corporal punishment when those were standard practices. Fagging was sometimes associated with sexual abuse by those older boys." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging
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That's physical abuse in accordance with school rules. And this is a school you pay 10s of grand a year to send your kids. Why do we put up with people essentially trained to be abusive from childhood having positions of power?
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INB4 somebody says we don't have fagging in the UK any more. We don't. But the baby boomers had it and they run the country.
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