Princess Hermione
Paul Booth
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This summer Princess Eugenie, Fergie's youngest, will join the same posh
boarding school as Harry Potter star Emma Watson - who plays Hermione.
The pair will enrol at mixed Marlborough College, a place so grand it makes
Hogwarts look like a city comprehensive.
The £19,000-a-year fees are enough to burn a hole in anyone's pockets -
whether royal or film star.
Emma's parents want her to get a "full academic education."
What? Rather than a wizard's schooling?
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Paul
Andrew Hollingbury
"Paul Booth" <pbo...@sphmgpaint.com> wrote in message
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> A short article in today's Daily Star, Stirrer section.
>
> --------
>
> This summer Princess Eugenie, Fergie's youngest, will join the same posh
> boarding school as Harry Potter star Emma Watson - who plays Hermione.
>
> The pair will enrol at mixed Marlborough College, a place so grand it
makes
> Hogwarts look like a city comprehensive.
>
> The £19,000-a-year fees are enough to burn a hole in anyone's pockets -
> whether royal or film star.
>
> Emma's parents want her to get a "full academic education."
If Emma is anywhere near as bright as she's supposed to be she'll be there
on a scholarship.
Anyway, Marlborough isn't exactly famed for its academic record.
Andrew H
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"Andrew Hollingbury" <a.holl...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> If Emma is anywhere near as bright as she's supposed to be she'll be there
> on a scholarship.
>
> Anyway, Marlborough isn't exactly famed for its academic record.
Sounds more like it's famed for its famously expensive tuition.
Probably unleashes a horde of fresh young smokers on the world too... *runs*
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>...Marlborough College, a place so grand it makes
> Hogwarts look like a city comprehensive.
What does "a city comprehensive" mean?
Andrew Hollingbury
"Jim" <no...@example.com> wrote in message
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In UK education, a stereotypical "city comprehensive" is a school probably
in the worst part of a city where the pupils play truant, throw things at
the teachers (one such school in my home city has perspex sheets on the
desks to protect the teachers), everyone drops out after GCSEs, kids knife
each other in the hallways etc. etc.
Andrew H
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"Andrew Hollingbury" <a.holl...@ukonline.co.uk> writes:
[SNIP]
>
> Anyway, Marlborough isn't exactly famed for its academic record.
>
The same cannot be said of it's teachers. At least I had the pleasure
of spending a year sharing a flat with an ex-house master from
Marlborough when at University. One of the brightest guys I have
ever met, and the stories he had to tell...
JAB.
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Andrew Hollingbury
"Jonathan Buzzard" <jona...@buzzard.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <b0gva6$ggg$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>,
> "Andrew Hollingbury" <a.holl...@ukonline.co.uk> writes:
>
> [SNIP]
> >
> > Anyway, Marlborough isn't exactly famed for its academic record.
> >
>
> The same cannot be said of it's teachers. At least I had the pleasure
> of spending a year sharing a flat with an ex-house master from
> Marlborough when at University. One of the brightest guys I have
> ever met, and the stories he had to tell...
I wouldn't be surprised. As an ex-public school pupil myself (only just)
the stories I could tell... if I could remember them.
Our school had some excellent teachers as well. However, nothing alters the
fact that many kids go to these schools because Daddy can pay for their
entire existance. Not that I'm bitter and twisted, no...
Andrew H
(Hogwarts is not much of a public school anyway - there's no streaming, I
doubt Ron, Harry and Hermione would be in the same class if there were...)
sip
<pbo...@sphmgpaint.com> wrote:
>A short article in today's Daily Star, Stirrer section.
>
>--------
>
>This summer Princess Eugenie, Fergie's youngest, will join the same posh
>boarding school as Harry Potter star Emma Watson - who plays Hermione.
>
>The pair will enrol at mixed Marlborough College, a place so grand it makes
>Hogwarts look like a city comprehensive.
>
>The £19,000-a-year fees are enough to burn a hole in anyone's pockets -
>whether royal or film star.
I hate you tell ya, 19,000 pounds a year is not even pocket change for
people who are truely wealthy. Some spend more than that on a meal.
Scott L
On 20-Jan-2003, "Andrew Hollingbury" <a.holl...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Our school had some excellent teachers as well. However, nothing alters
> the
> fact that many kids go to these schools because Daddy can pay for their
> entire existance. Not that I'm bitter and twisted, no...
It's a very common circumstance, that the wealthiest of children tend to
either excel or have abyssmal results. The first because of the
opportunities afforded them, and the second because so often they think
their lives are already taken care of so why bother? Given the starting
item of this thread - Emma studying at this school - I suspect Emma's fully
aware of the fact she's the one workign to pay her own way through, so she
should take a great deal more from the school than what I've read here as
more typical.
Just a monkey,
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Princess Hermione in a message dated Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:21:54 -0000:
>> What does "a city comprehensive" mean?
>
>In UK education, a stereotypical "city comprehensive" is a school probably
>in the worst part of a city where the pupils play truant, throw things at
>the teachers (one such school in my home city has perspex sheets on the
>desks to protect the teachers), everyone drops out after GCSEs, kids knife
>each other in the hallways etc. etc.
Sort of like "North Quay" High School of "To Sir, With Love" fame?
Regards,
Arnold.
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HELENA
"mag3" <mag3*hates*spam*@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> Quoting "Andrew Hollingbury" <a.holl...@ukonline.co.uk> regarding Re:
> Princess Hermione in a message dated Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:21:54 -0000:
>
>
> >> What does "a city comprehensive" mean?
> >
> >In UK education, a stereotypical "city comprehensive" is a school
probably
> >in the worst part of a city where the pupils play truant, throw things at
> >the teachers (one such school in my home city has perspex sheets on the
> >desks to protect the teachers), everyone drops out after GCSEs, kids
knife
> >each other in the hallways etc. etc.
Before if they're 16 in the first half of the year...
>
> Sort of like "North Quay" High School of "To Sir, With Love" fame?
Sadder and more hopeless...
HELENA
Tom Riddle
> Quoting "Andrew Hollingbury" <a.holl...@ukonline.co.uk> regarding
> Re: Princess Hermione in a message dated Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:21:54
> -0000:
>
>
>>> What does "a city comprehensive" mean?
>>
>> In UK education, a stereotypical "city comprehensive" is a school
>> probably in the worst part of a city where the pupils play truant,
>> throw things at the teachers (one such school in my home city has
>> perspex sheets on the desks to protect the teachers), everyone drops
>> out after GCSEs, kids knife each other in the hallways etc. etc.
>
The school that all the new teachers teach at for 1 year before trying hard
to go somewhere where the pupils want to learn.
In the city nearest to me they recently closed 3 old 'city comp' schools and
made a new, massive, 'superschool' which just made the problem worse. This
school, whilst looking nice and shiney for the government, cane bottom [1]
out of all schools in the city and county.
[1] an unfortunate typo. I meant came bottom, of course, but left it there
'cause i though it was funny.
~~
Matt
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