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Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ChocolatChaud@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/18/private-schools-educated-most-powerful-jobs

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    All that a private school offers is a world of connections

    It’s not about education, it’s about being a part of a group that holds the rest of the world in contempt and creates a tribe who are born to rule

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That certainly wasn’t my experience twenty years ago. Not in the slightest. Admittedly my school wasn’t the top of the heap in this stuff but elitism really didn’t come up at all.

      Smaller class sizes, the filter of an entrance exam, and a culture of getting involved fostered kids who were interested in their education, were comfortable taking up space socially, and were eager to have a go at whatever they could. By contrast my wife’s school encouraged her to not get her hopes up. She didn’t listen, thankfully, but it was a bit of a contrast to mine.

      Sending kids to a private school doesn’t automatically make them sociopaths, even if that’s what their horrid parents might want in some cases.

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      • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        In Australia it certainly is all about connections and nothing more

        The academic achievements of the snooty kids aren’t any better than the kids in public schools to any significant degree

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  • meliante@lemmy.pt ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Is it the ones privately educated that have the vice grip or is it that the ones that have the vice grip on the powerful UK jobs go/send their kids to private schools?

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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s both. The networking with kids from private school and their parents is probably more valuable than the education that they receive.

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The sales pitch for private education. Is the connections and networking it provides.

      So while both are clearly true. It is very much a refusal to look beyond such educational connections. That reinforces the strong grip on power.

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