“So you actually don’t know any black people?”
“You’re a Posh twat!”
“Oh did mummy and daddy pay for that?”
“You must love polo.”
Is it polo?
I shouldn’t do that one, because I can’t say polo!
Are you ready?
“You posh twat!”
That’s just goddamn rude.
The amount of times I’ve heard that, I don’t even need to do anything to just like get
people to say that to me.
It was my first day, and I was looking around like, there’s just a bunch of posh twats
in this school, I was like, I do not- Did you feel inadequate?
I felt like an outcast.
There was a bit of a town and gown situation, like the people in the town didn’t really
like people who went to school.
I think I’m quite common, so I think I’m like the one pointing the fingers at the private
school girls like yeah there they are!
That’s not me!
They used to make this joke, ah he’s a bounty, what do you mean a bounty?
Well I’m not a bounty mate, I’m just well spoken.
Having been in the North London area, I think I don’t have that much of a posh accent
so I’m alright.
“Did mummy and daddy pay for that?”
Did they pay for my private school education?
Then yes they did, I was not supporting myself at age thirteen.
My parents would be like, ‘Yep, we did.’
Yes, they did.
Unless it’s my birthday, every goddamn day, my parents ain’t got it for me.
I still know like the debt, you know, I raked up, I could never pay back.
If you let your kids just live off you, where do you draw the line?
And what happens when you die?
Yeah they’re going to be inept.
My mum’s just come down to London, and she opened my fridge and she was like, ‘Oh,
I want to cry, all you’ve got is cheese and an onion.’
No, no, my mum I call mummy, it’s always mummy.
It’s definitely mummy, like all the time.
But with my dad it’s kinda like, because obviously.
Actually to be honest I keep it, I keep it formal with my dad, I’m not gonna lie.
Sometimes I call my mum mummy.
That’s really bad because that’s when I want something.
Also just gay culture, daddy means something just completely different.
Oh lord.
Ah this is brilliant!
“You must love polo.”
If they mean the mints with the hole then yes, yes I do.
I did use to horse ride.
Did you?
But it was just, it was just the assumption that because I horse rode it was polo.
There’s just like the assumption that on break time is that, you know, grab our horses
out the stables and we go and play a good game of polo.
I have never, I have never played polo, ever.
Like I’ve never even been on a horse.
Like a fast paced croquet on horses.
It’s just a bit.
That’s my understanding.
Croquet.
Yeah.
Croquet.
I do love croquet.
Do you?
Do you play croquet?
Yeah.
It’s such a boring but riveting game, croquet.
And pop!
I did wine and cheese society.
I’m so jealous!
Yeah we used to like go to the dining room and just sit round and drink wine, have cheese.
I
was like I’m not telling anyone that I do this.
You know you just told a lot of people.
“Do you know any black people?”
The prince of Nigeria went to my school.
Do you know any black people, did any black people go to your school?
I have plenty of black friends, do you know what I mean, private school’s not some sort
of supremacist scheme.
Three of my best friends are black!
Yeah but we’re not white anyway.
Exactly, I’m not white anyway!
The worst thing that I do is a pause, which makes it even worse, I don’t just go ‘No
of course I do.’
I pause and I think aunty, uncle.
Any cultural divide in any environment, there were white people, there were Asian people,
there were black people.
Yeah.
They’d always find my friend who was black and they’d have him in every school photo.
My school was so white.
Oh wow.
It was so white.
I think there were three black guys.
There’s like a picture of the orchestra or something.
No.
And they’ve got him playing like the trombone, and he doesn’t even play the trombone.
“Would you send your kids to private school?”
One hundred percent I’d send my kids to private school, and I think if everyone could
then I think most people would.
I would not.
I kind of have a bit of grounding having been in the education sector, and actually I have
a two year old and I absolutely want to send her to private school if I’m able.
Personally for me, while I appreciate the opportunity and it was a great privilege,
I don’t think it’s something that is needed.
I felt a big level of pressure when I was in private school, because I think that you
know people are setting like these big standards and they think that you do, you should be
getting like amazing grades, going off and being like a doctor or a lawyer, I did feel
like a lot of pressure because I wasn’t in that, I wasn’t in that box.
Yeah.
Meeting that criteria.
The best thing about going to private school was the long holidays.
Yeah XXX agree What was it?
I think we had like ten weeks for summer.
My private school there was only about four hundred of us.
This is us.
So there was a real sense of community and everyone kind of looked out for each other.
And just because you go to a private school doesn’t mean you’ll be successful.
No, not at all.
At all.
So did we just say the best thing about being at private school was not being there?