Not stupid, just innocent in the ways of the world
I once worked with a young woman who had just left a rather expensive public school.
Apparently while waiting to meet and marry Mr Moneybags, daddy decided she should experience life amongst the working class plebs.
So somehow this rather elegant girl found herself deployed in the packing dept of a small company at the same table as myself.
Nice girl but really had no idea.
After messing up a few orders, the supervisor came over to explain weights and measures, with the words " its just basic maths"
Girl says "Oh we didnt do basic maths at ( insert famous all girls school)
Stunned silence from us, supervisor clears throat, says "dont worry you'll get the idea" and wanders off.
Over the next week we discovered that at her expensive school not only did they not teach basic maths, but also basic cookery ( she didnt know you had to peel an onion) or any form of how to cope in the working world
Emphasis was on social etiquette, how to behave in the company of royalty and how to address servants.
Why learn domestic skills when its expected you will marry well and have others take care of those trivial things?
I used to think she was just taking the piss until the day I wandered into the tea room to find her disdainfully holding a tea bag between expensively manicured fingernails, and with a bemused expression, turned to me and asked "what do I do with this?"
No idea what became of her as I left for pastures new.
But I'd like to think she found her Mr Darcy because quite frankly no way would she cope in the real world otherwise
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 1:16, 5 replies)

Oh, those well known schools that don't follow the compulsory national curriculum!

( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Fri 4 Mar 2011, 7:14, closed)

yep
Thats why i thought she was taking the piss.
whatever the truth behind her tales, she seriously didnt have a clue
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:09, closed)

Independent, i.e. 'private' schools, don't have to follow the National Curriculum.
They can teach whatever the head and governors want them to.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 19:27, closed)

Oh is that so?
Could explain a lot really, ta :)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 1:10, closed)

If I understand Jane Austen properly
Mr Darcy had better taste.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 7:14, closed)