My father was a don at Winchester and before that, Cheltenham.
His experiences at both have led me to believe that they are run by cunts, spastics and wankers. Winchester College owns property worth (at a guess) at least a hundred million quid, and the fees the boys pay are astronomical. And yet they feed the boys sub-prison slop (I worked part-time in the kitchens at two boarding houses as a teen) and my mother was forced to run the drama wardrobe from a freezing attic for about ten years before they bought her a heater.

Alt: they sound shit. I recommend you delete your account and kill yourself forthwith.

EDIT - thinking about all those kids is making ME harder. Hope this helps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:25, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

I suspected that this was the norm for private schools.
Sad it's commonplace.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:34, Reply)

They are private businesses and as such, stingy bastards.
This is the way of the world, is it not?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:35, Reply)

These kids won't suffer
If their parents can afford to send them to a £15k per year school then they've probably got a pretty good head start in life anyway.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:36, Reply)

Yeah I know. It's the crappy attitude towards the whole "school as a business" I don't like.

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:38, Reply)

Commie bastard.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:41, Reply)