[ SECRET POST #3645 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3645 ⌋

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Comments

[arcadiaego]

Don't you think it's a commentary on how kids at English boarding schools literally are sorted into the categories they will be in for life at age 11?

[morieris]

I'm American and honestly didn't think that happened. I know boarding schools exist but they don't REALLY do that over there, do they?

[arcadiaego]

Well, although there are often school houses I don't know that which *house* you are in would make much of a difference except among alumni. But the practise of sending rich kids off to Eton or Harrow at age 11 certainly *does* categorise them for life. A majority of our last government cabinet was educated at Eton because they all hired their own friends. That shuts out other 'categories' of people. Which school you went to and which *kind* of school is a big part of the class system here. There are people who seriously think Harrow is 'lesser' than Eton despite the fact that most of us could never afford to go to either if we worked for a thousand years.

I mean, it's also a cute way to get kids to buy house branded merchandise, but you're very much "sorted" for life in some ways at age 11. (Also the year you used to do the 11 plus exam which sent you off to grammar school (academic, middle class) or comprehensive (vocational and manual, working class). It's exponentially harder to do certain things if you're not in the right category from childhood.