- All the childern come from different backgrounds for example london council estate, Yorkshiredale - village school, Lierpool suberb- middle class, state school , the east end of london and private prep school - kensingtion- sing waltzing matilda in latin, Private boys school- Surry, School for girls.
- One re occuring featre within the private and public schools was that of how disaplined the childern where , some said they had been taught to accept it.
- Example of differance in disaplin:
- private all girls school- Classical Ballet.
- Public school - movement to music.
- state school- left to play in the playground (freedom).
- After school:
- upper- structred and to bed by 7
- lower-lack of structure more freedom.
- Mixing and segrigating genders:
- Individuals from segrigated schools- dont really want to get married and childcare would be done by a nanny.
- Childern from mixed gender schools talk about who likes who and some have girlfriends and boyfriends and talk about marrage later in there lives. They feel much more comfortable and open about speaking about the opposite gender compared to the childern who lived in the segrigated schools but these tended to be the all girls private schools and public schools.
- Poor and Rich:
- Predjdise - money?
- Public School- Not bad to pay for schools- becuase if not it would be crowded, nasty people- 'poor people would come rushing in"said one child.
- There chosen to read the observer and the times.
- The childeren from the state school where asked what would they do if they where rich ' Help the poor. if I had lots of money like £2'.
- What do you think of rich people- ' They think they can do everything, without you dong it aswell. They think just because they are rich, people can do all the work for them.'
- Childern from private school : What do you think about rich people :
- ' Don't think much of there accents... poor childern don't bost about themselvers and rich childern bost about themselves and say how clever I am....'
- ' Rich childeren always make fun of the poor childern'
- State : same question;
- Child dose an impression of a sterotypical posh person , stiff upper lip and well pronounced voice.
- 'There nuts' , ' just have to touch then ...' and mines as thwack.
- From this there seems to be a mythology around what it is to be rich , as going to a privately paid school can be seen as rich and having the sterotypical traites of well pronounced voice and stiff upper lip. Some of the childern in the public and private schools can be said to have this and they don't seem to regard themselves as rich . So the question poses , What is rich ?
- What do you think about black people?
- State school: ' Just the same as us really'
- Private' I don't want to know anybody who is black and don't want to know anyone who is black thank you very much.'
- It is interesting how the state school are more accepting and hold more equal belifs compared to Private/public schools. Could this be down to there background up bringing?
What do they think of each other after meeting?
- Private' Bit to tuff for my liking' 'some of them where rather dirty.'
- State ' don't like the boys' seemed okay with the girls.
Likely outcomes for the childern baced on the genreral background:
- Private- being prepared for uni and public school.
- State- 3 out of 30 likely to gain a place at grammer school, the rest are likely to start work at 15.
- Private:
- Westminster boarding - Cambridge.
- Broad stairs - st peters court charter house , Cambridge.
- Charter house - Oxford.
- Heathviled, uni not sure which one.
- ' Go to Africa and teach people who are not civilised to be good.'
- State:
- 'What dose university mean?'
- Wait till i'm old enough to get a job , ill just walk around and see what I find.
- Jockey.
- Kathy Kirby.(singer)
- I want to be a astronort if not a coach driver.
- police
- new house
- work in woolworths.
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