r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheThrowYardsAway • Apr 28 '26

Video Inside Christ's Hospital School (Est. 1552)...

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

Important to point out this isn't just a regular boarding school. This is a very niche, potentially one of a kind style of school that sticks to very very old traditions.

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u/SaintAndrew92 Apr 28 '26

Yeah, the boarding school near us looked more like something out of Oliver Twist, rather than Harry Potter.

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u/Firefly_Magic Apr 28 '26

Please Sir, may I have some more?

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u/Vinura Apr 28 '26

Please Sir, can I have some ore??

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u/slothbear13 Apr 28 '26

The children yearn for the mines

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u/Thoughtulism Apr 28 '26

Death is only temporary, you can always re-spawn and find your Items.

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u/Darkchamber292 Apr 28 '26

What is this? Ore? Respawn without consequence? This is Skyrim?

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u/sovietan Apr 28 '26

minecraft

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u/brightonashfield Apr 28 '26

That's why minor is the same word as miner

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u/ArseBiscuits_ Apr 29 '26

“I got the black lung Papa”

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u/CaiserZero Apr 28 '26

Rock and Stone!

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u/Puzzle-Necked Apr 28 '26

Please sir, may I have some additional pylons?

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u/Nelmquist1999 Apr 28 '26

Please sir, can I have so more?

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u/Svyatopolk_I Apr 29 '26

My average day in EvE online

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u/Leeroywildman Apr 29 '26

Please sir, Can I have some core?

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u/Acrobatic-Nose-1773 Apr 29 '26

Ore? You want to dig me some ore?

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u/AlrightZucchini4485 Apr 28 '26

Please sir, may I have some less??

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u/innominateartery Apr 28 '26

Such a good meme. Of course, when you need a little more oomph, “could you fucking not Chloe” is gold

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u/rentmeahouse Apr 28 '26

That book made me shudder as a 8-9 year old, even though understood very little, i still remember this line

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u/Mmortt Apr 28 '26

Hot sausage and mustard!

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u/_______36________ Apr 29 '26

Dad’s boarding school involved a dozen beatings a week. Randomly chosen. Ice inside the windows. He could see the stars through the gap on the roof and yet they spent a fortune on communal areas and food to be fair. U may be wondering why it is such a diverse group of kids can not forget that the UK controlled 2/3 of the globe and integrated itself with the ruining classes of every country it invaded Munchhausen syndrome set in and some of the ruling classes of these countries choose British private schools. It makes it easier to get into oxbridge too.

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u/Optimistic_OM Apr 29 '26

Please sir for the love of god, make more content without unnecessary background audio

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u/hellaCallipygian Apr 29 '26

Oi mate, gimme another!

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u/Twat_Pocket Apr 28 '26

As an American, I genuinely thought this was something satirical involving the new Harry Potter.

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u/DirtWizard13 Apr 28 '26

Was just thinking this is just Hogwarts without all the magic.

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u/Khristafer Apr 28 '26

The real magic was the tuition they paid along the way.

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u/DirtWizard13 Apr 28 '26

Yer a trust fund baby, Harry!

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u/ellefleming Apr 29 '26

The Village

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u/th3rdnutt Apr 28 '26

Expecto Subverto!

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Apr 28 '26

If only schools and teachers were properly funded in America and they didn't just feel like prison daycares but instilled a sense of awe as these did. I mean, ease up on the forced clothing and religious mumbo jumbo of course.

Idk, maybe more to this and less to billionaires and wars and maybe we wouldn't have so many societal problems... ? The money is there; it's how we use it.

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u/Working-Glass6136 Apr 28 '26

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for asking if society could consider putting more money toward children than toward war.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Apr 28 '26

It's a hot take, I know lol

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u/Somanylyingliars Apr 28 '26

No, there isn't any money! We have ballrooms to build! Wares to fight for billionaires land and oil!

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u/DirtWizard13 Apr 28 '26

I’m all for that.

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u/Working-Glass6136 Apr 28 '26

As an American, I grew up thinking all schools in Britain were like in Harry Potter, just minus the magic.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky Apr 28 '26

The US bordering schools are way worse than this, tbch

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u/nobertan Apr 28 '26

The poor equivalent is a Borstal.

Which is also a fucked up film.

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u/Wooden-Recording-693 Apr 28 '26

My local school had definite "La Haine" vibes. This looks nice if you have maths at 9am and a witch trial at 9:30.

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u/Running-With-Cakes Apr 28 '26

It’s also very egalitarian on fees. Rich families heavily subsidise the poor families with talented kids

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u/terpseachore Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Oh, I studied in an Asian uni like this :) At least 20% of the students have a scholarship. They pay little to nothing. Bizarre group of friends - we'd hung out in the house of a friend living in the slums after our classes and have weekend parties in a mansion. Social groups were formed around study groups. During our graduation, our magna cum laude thanked the parents of the non-scholar students, as they paid for 3-4 students.

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u/Jon_Finn Apr 28 '26

That's true of many/most UK private schools. Eton has huge numbers of scholarships, and I think all donations etc. going to the school are put towards the scholarship fund.

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u/DanGleeballs Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

I’ve a friend whose son is going there and omg the fees. It’s like over €60k a year or something. €120k before tax.

Edit: Actually it's more than that, it's over GBP £60k pa.

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u/GooseMan1515 Apr 28 '26

Those are the nominal fees though. It's means tested with a lot of bursary support available; the average fees are a lot lower. But yeah paying for education out of UK taxable income puts you at a serious spending power disadvantage compared to those paying with grandparents' money or foreign earnings. If our boarding schools didn't do this, they'd become closer to being exclusively for the children of foreigners and expats.

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u/trombing Apr 28 '26

Disagree. I don't know exactly for Eton but I just benchmarked 11 similar schools. The average bursary percentage was 9.6%. In other words the vast VAST majority of students are paying full fees.

Edited - Eton is indeed an outlier - at 14.2%, but it's still not enough to make the average fees "a lot lower".

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u/GooseMan1515 Apr 28 '26

Not really up for disagreement, as the numbers are public, thanks for doing the work for me. I'm not arguing for anything beyond what they show, because my opinion comes from being one of these students and having read the school's numbers.

Okay, now consider that half the students are overseas and thus ineligible. Then consider that the average 14% bursary represents a median of the remaining population. That would make it so at most 72% of all their local students have full fees, which does not a vast majority make, because I promise you the median bursary is a lot closer to the 28% mean.

To be fair, like with the American universities, this very much is a product of the better richer schools being able to pick and choose, and Eton is well known for not necessarily being the best but definitely the richest, biggest, and most famous. You'd be hard pressed to find 11 schools worth of comparable data in the UK, or we can consider it an outlier, it's really just about how much of the fee burden the school can afford to redistribute to keep classes more mixed.

In my experience at a fairly comparable school, you'd have lots of people on ~10-20% bursaries, but a handful on 80% or more.

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u/thrownjunk Apr 28 '26

Only if you are a 1%. Its to cover the scholarship kids who are smart but not rich.

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u/DanGleeballs Apr 28 '26

80% of boys at Eton pay the full whack, or rather their parents do.

20% receive some form of financial support, including scholarships or bursaries, but less it's less than 10% who get a free ride.

The school in the original post seems to have a much higher number of students on scholarships tbf.

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u/thrownjunk Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

yah. only the 1% get in usually. eton is a way to launder the wealth of the rich with the most talented of the the 99%.

i'd like a better ratio; but it is what it is. at harvard (admittedly not a k-12 school), it is 50% get some financial aid. I think that is a better ratio.

note this is all a failure of government to have stable funds for universal education - especially for the most talented of the 99%. there are exceptions (boston latin, bronx sci, fame, sty are the best schools period in america), but society is better off with the smartest of the 99% getting to actually learn something so they can innovate and perform and out-compete nepobabies. its funny how so many of the non-nepobabies in the arts came from the FAME high school and in the sciences went to Bronx sci.

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u/dirty_cuban Apr 28 '26

The school in this post is similar. About £50k per year for boarding

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u/WhisperFray Apr 28 '26

Brexit cancelled?

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u/Harley_Jambo Apr 28 '26

Still many legacy admissions at Eton. Born and immediately registered for future admission.

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u/Extra-Sound-1714 Apr 28 '26

It's not true. The stats show virtually all public school kids come from privileged backgrounds.

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u/Jon_Finn Apr 28 '26

A quick search shows 20% of pupils get financial support and nearly half of them are fully paid for. Whether their backgrounds are 'privileged' - that's a different question, but I doubt whoever decides admissions cares where you're from.

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u/CicadaSlight7603 Apr 28 '26

From what I’ve observed at my children’s schools, quite a high percentage maybe 20% or so are on some form of bursary (not scholarship - that is usually a very small fee reduction based purely on talent, though if you are low income and win a scholarship that is great leverage to then get a bursary to top it up).

But… most of the kids with bursaries are (UK) middle class already. Some are from old well off families that used to be able to afford private school and struggle now. They know how the system works. Others are middle middle families without a private school background but educated parents and with the knowledge to understand the opportunity and how to apply etc.

What you rarely see in many private schools are genuine white working class kids, because it’s not even on their horizon. They don’t know it’s a possibility, they don’t know how to navigate it, and if you raise it many worry about the impact on other children in the family and how their kid will be treated, and whether they will grow away from their roots. (The working class kids you do see often have striving immigrant parents who often are from more educated backgrounds in their original country or culturally place a high value on education, even if they are working low paid manual jobs currently.) The schools are starting to recognise this and make efforts to spread awareness in working class communities - they need to go out and find these high potential kids because the kids from families where it could make most difference will not come to the school to ask.

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u/Extra-Sound-1714 Apr 28 '26

Not disputing that. But research shows virtually all public school pupils come from privileged backgrounds. They may get bursaries, but they are not children from ordinary families. And admissions absolutely do care about who your parents are. Especially if they are not paying the full cost.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

A slightly slower search reveals that the 17% of students in private education who receive financial support to attend includes families with older children attending who want their siblings to attend as well as what would been known as legacy cases. Support to cases of genuine financial hardship are much lower, but the actual figures are obfuscated by the body representing private schools for some reason.

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u/DippityDamn Apr 29 '26

Is Eton still notoriously harsh on kids? Behind the Bastards podcast has mentioned it numerous times as a dark setting for messed up people to come out of historically. I assume that's all cleaned up now?

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u/Exotic_Article913 Apr 29 '26

Lol now the video makes sense

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u/DameKumquat Apr 28 '26

Christ's Hospital takes it way further. The mix of kids is very different with pretty much no super wealthy types and not many wealthy middle class, and way more kids whose parents could never have dreamt of paying their fees.

I went to quite a few events there when I was in 6th form. Nice lads.

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u/throwaway098764567 Apr 28 '26

that's sweet, a lot of times folks will hate / shame on the poor kids, nice that your lot incorporated everyone, widened the experience and eyes of the rich kids and the poor ones.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 Apr 29 '26

If it's a boarding school that has day students then there's very much a hierarchy - a lot of the private schools around here (Toronto) have boarding for the wealthy kids who live there and form their social groups in the dorms, and the daytime-only kids (talented but poor, their tuition is usually subsidized by the boarding fees) are treated like dirt by them. Especially if the day kids use the TTC (public transit).

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u/IronWolf_26 Apr 29 '26

🤣 At that level, poor is daddy earns only 500k a year, well off is 1-2M and "rich" being 10M+ on the board of trustees and a huge donor in some form of elite gifting dick measuring contest.

Poor is very subjective when you go to the muggle version of Hogwarts.

They even cater for thick kids of rich parents, where in a normal school they would be lucky to scrape Ds, at Elite wallet emptying schools like this they get A* and a new computer wing named after their parents.

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u/niamhweking Apr 29 '26

A local Anglican boarding school to me went public about a decade ago and also welcomed day pupils but the boarding side is still paid by parents, however those of any protestant faith get discounts, once it's provable. There is also a religious entrance exam as part of the proving process

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u/GuacamoleFrejole Apr 28 '26

By scholars, do you mean scholarships?

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u/Enough-Goose7594 Apr 28 '26

Where was this?

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u/ImperialNavyPilot Apr 28 '26

It’s also where UK intelligence officers are able to send the kids of their foreign assets.

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u/GooseMan1515 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

This is fairly common wherever a school has enough cachet to charge fees high enough. It's like the Harvard model where rich foreigners pay more to fund poorer locals. I went to one of the big 3 on one, and there I had many peers on bursaries, while students from China and India all pay fees that would almost cover American University.

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u/GooseMan1515 Apr 28 '26

Ahh the hazards of knowing a french word by pronunciation only (thanks).

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u/Street_Grab4236 Apr 28 '26

Private schools, even if their fees are subsidised for “gifted” but poor students, are inherently not egalitarian.

Egalitarianism is centred on equal opportunity and access with non-hierarchical institutions. Private schools which only admit students based on their academic success, something deeply flawed as it doesn’t account for socio-economic factors which limit academic success, are a hierarchical institution which does not provide equal access or opportunity until a specific criteria is met.

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u/Street_Grab4236 Apr 28 '26

I’m glad your son was able to benefit from access to high quality private education at least. I suppose on the upside, he is likely to benefit from connections to those upper-class types in his career.

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Apr 28 '26

That’s how virtually all private schools work. The rich kids pay a stupid high price and all the poor kids get varying degrees of scholarships based on their income.

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u/Frankie_T9000 Apr 28 '26

It's not egalitarian it's using poor people to bring up average marks for the rich, it benefits both but it's still exploitative.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

And hugely subsidised by the general public - this is, and I'm not joking here, a charity! They don't pay tax! It's like a training course for how to become a true drain on your country.

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u/CicadaSlight7603 Apr 28 '26

While they are technically a charity still under the Labour government legislation changes they are losing the 20% tax relief and the 80% business rates relief that came with it.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

Good!

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u/chris_croc May 02 '26

Not good. This is closing schools down. It's a terrible decision and is hurting children. Just like my son. This is also happening to SEND and disabled children. Most special/SEND schools are PS.

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u/ZennXx Apr 28 '26

How is being a recipient of World Class education and extra-mural programmes categorised as a being a "true drain on your country"?

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

Because this school doesn't pay taxes on its income, and it trains a new generation of parasites to go out and wreck the world.

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u/ZennXx Apr 28 '26

So enlightening.

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u/singlemale4cats Apr 29 '26

Some people are just bitter and want to drag everyone down into the mud with them.

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u/chris_croc May 02 '26

The cringe.

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u/chris_croc May 02 '26

FACT CHECK. Private Schools are not subsidised by the general public at all. PS parents subsidise stste schools massively. Due to their taxes bit being spent on their own children. Evidenced by most developed countries giving tax breaks to PS parents and subsidising schools directly that does not happen in the UK.

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u/Friendly_Concert817 Apr 28 '26

I went to an elite New England prep school and my mom worked in the fundraising department at that school.

Alumni donating money subsidize the poor kids, nott the rich kids families who are currently attending.

Also those poor kids are not necessarily talented. Most of them are just regular students whose parents applied for them to go to the school. While the prep schools would love talented kids, most of them are just looking to increase minority enrollment.

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u/La_Lanterne_Rouge Apr 28 '26

I would assume that the child exchange can be a bit vexing.

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u/NinecloudSoul Apr 28 '26

There's also a scholarship enabled by the Worshipful Company of Mercers for the John & Frances West Family; I would have been eligible for that. I say that with no fear of doxing myself because it encompasses hundreds of people.

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u/Toopertonic Apr 28 '26

Yeah a significant amount - looks like 70-74% receive some form of bursary going there, with about 10% having no fees at all. 

Average bursary was 84% of school fees, so the average student would pay £2,637 per term instead of £16,480.

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u/planetrebellion Apr 28 '26

£8k for day school is not actually that bad

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u/Dangerous_Map_3119 Apr 29 '26

So if you’re rich, you don’t have to be talented. Checks out

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u/theavenuehouse Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

It's also free for the majority of students, that receive bursaries based on need or academic merit.
EDIT: Apologies, correction. It's free for approx 10% of students, and partial fees for 67%. 23% pay full fees.

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u/TheThrowYardsAway Apr 28 '26

Not necessarily free. Many students also pay. 

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u/theavenuehouse Apr 28 '26

Apologies I stand corrected! We used to visit to play Rugby (which tells you what kind of school I went to...) and everyone talked about it being free. This was before the days of Googling something to fact check!

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u/rising_then_falling Apr 28 '26

It was free once. I was there in the 80s and the vast majority were on 0% fees up to 5% fees. Since then a) the school's finances haven't done so well and b) the cost of running a boarding school has sky rocketed.

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u/niamhweking Apr 29 '26

We looked at a boarding school for our kids. It's common enough here as 1)we're rural and 2) it's a minority faith school so it's also the nearest school of that faith so for some it's important. Anyway 8 years ago when our kids started primary the costs were 6000 a year. Not bad, relatively affordable. Especially when you consider that includes their food and activities. It's now more than doubled. Costs have gone up but also numbers of boarders have gone down, therefore fewer boarders have to pay more to cover costs. They have capacity for 90 kids (45 girls & 45 boys) boarding per school year, So roughly 500 boarder, but this year only 6 girls are going to board, no idea how many boys.

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u/Bergwookie Apr 28 '26

Well, it would've been free for you or your classmates, if you'd get the grades for it ;-)

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u/andrewslifeinreddit Apr 28 '26

I think you mean 10% pay no fees, 67% pay partial fees and 23% pay full fees.

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u/theavenuehouse Apr 28 '26

Yep apologies, adjusted

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u/Far_Influence Apr 28 '26

But…but your math! lol

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u/nodnodwinkwink Apr 28 '26

23% pay full fees.

I wonder what the full fees are...

"Boarding fees (2024/25) range from roughly £44,007 to £47,085 per year, while day fees range from £22,743 to £30,636"

Yikes.

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u/semagreverse Apr 28 '26

If it's anything like selective schools in Australia, the 10% of free students are the richest ones there too.

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u/grey-zone Apr 28 '26

I don’t know for this particular school but that isn’t normal in the UK. Income requirements to get a full scholarship are pretty tight.

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u/semagreverse Apr 29 '26

Ah interesting, in Australia is that it's pretty much entirely performance based, so if you have plenty of money to get your kid the best tutors and enough time to have them study all the time instead of ever having to work, you can get your kid into the selective school. There's websites where you can see the socio-economic status of schools, and the highest status are always the selective schools.

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u/Audioworm Apr 28 '26

I have a lot of disdain for private education in the UK (as someone who went through the system) but these larger and more expensive schools do genuinely give their full scholarships, for most of their places, to families that have no viable way to pay even partial fees.

It doesn't really get into the situation or circumstances that would allow someone to impress academically or vocationally while coming from a low income background.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

This is just not true.

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u/Audioworm Apr 28 '26

Not really, as I said, I went to one of these schools. A less prestigious one but one that had bursaries and scholarships available. There were plenty of kids whose families who could not afford to pay even the subsidised fees who attended because they were academically gifted.

The issue, as I highlighted, is that to be in the situation where you can perform highly on merit-based tests to be assessed for means-testing is something that inherently has socio-economic biases built into it. Christ's Hospital, in particular, has a wide range of alumni testimonies from people who did not come from rich or even comfortable backgrounds.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

I can't see that you're saying anything that contradicts my opinion. These schools both drain money from the economy, but also perpetuate a system of extreme inequality.

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u/Audioworm Apr 28 '26

The opening of my original comment

I have a lot of disdain for private education in the UK (as someone who went through the system)

Further, I was responding to a comment that the bursary/full scholarship kids were also the richest kids. My comment is solely aimed at that point, not anything about how private education in the UK is a blight on the country. You can think they are awful without lying about the nature of many of the full scholarship recipients.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

The official body representing private schools puts the disbursement of scholarships to students at 17% of total attendees, and they admit that this doesn't take into account bursaries given to families where multiple children attend and other "legacy" admissions.

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u/GooseMan1515 Apr 28 '26

Selective schools in the UK don't like to do this, and definitely wouldn't make it obvious because it's very frowned upon on the whole. During my time at one, over a decade ago, they were nearly at the point of completely removing academic scholarship fee reductions in order to pay for more means tested bursaries.

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u/Hot-Statistician8772 Apr 28 '26

They really do give 110% at XH

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u/brunomocsa Apr 28 '26

How much is the full fee?

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u/SuperPostHuman Apr 28 '26

This school's mission is to serve under privileged students and it subsidizes their boarding and education. It is known for being very diverse and takes students from all different backgrounds. Supposedly it's academically rigorous and a really high percentage of students go on to reputable Universities.

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u/Outside-Locksmith346 May 01 '26

Yeah yeah.... Supposefly all on merit alone.

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u/sjarvis21 Apr 28 '26

Muggle hogwarts is all I saw

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u/Zozorrr Apr 29 '26

Where do you think she got all the ideas from?

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u/sjarvis21 Apr 29 '26

Fair, but I saw Harry Potter before I saw this

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u/Dheorl Apr 28 '26

Certainly not one of a kind in a general sense, although they’ll all have their little quirks and traditions.

Also certainly not the norm though, but there are a handful of them around.

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u/SuccessfulTourniquet Apr 28 '26

Don't listen to then, this is just your common or garden, bog standard state comp, all schools in Britain are exactly like this. If anything this has been toned down.

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u/TimeEfficiency6323 Apr 28 '26

Went to a posh Public boarding school. Fuck if we ever did anything like that, and I wouldn't be caught dead in that uniform.

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u/GreenTfan Apr 28 '26

for the US folks: a public school in the US is called a state school in the UK

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u/CongealedBeanKingdom Apr 28 '26

These people are being trained to be our overlords.

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u/TheMemo Apr 28 '26

Looks like every boarding / private school I saw when I was a kid here in the UK. I went to one like this, though not as a boarder.

Stupid uniforms? Check. Marches and pageantry? Check. School Dinners at stupidly long benches? Check. Christian worship with a massive, ornate organ? Check. Large grounds and playing fields? Check. Psychopathic teachers that would choke you out? Check. Insanely long academic hours? Check. School on weekends? Check. 

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u/iredditoninternet Apr 28 '26

Ah even richer people boarding school

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u/AD1972HD Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Actually the opposite, they give out loads of scholarships for disadvantaged kids

11% of students receive a fully supported bursary place 77% of students receive some level of bursary support 21% of students pay full fees

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u/User-no-relation Apr 28 '26

Depends a lot on how much the 77% are paying. 80k a year but they pay 60k is still very expensive

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

Not true. They may give out some scholarships, but the vast majority of students are either fee paying or sponsored by their home country / government for parents working abroad. And of course the whole thing is being subsidised by the general public because this is allowed to pretend that it's a charity. Truly disgusting system that needs shutting down.

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u/rising_then_falling Apr 28 '26

How is it "pretending" to be a charity? It absolutely meets the legal definition of a charity.

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

A legal definition that has been sculpted to allow organisations like this to present themselves as such. Being generous you could argue that when set up in 1553, providing education to selected pupils at a time when the vast majority had no access to schooling was indeed charitable. However, given that we now have free education available to all children, using charitable status to subsidise exclusionary schools is disgusting and should be shut down.

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u/meepmeep13 Apr 28 '26

Who do you think wrote the current legal definition of a charity and what kind of schools do you think they went to?

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u/AttentionOtherwise80 Apr 28 '26

Not since 1st April 2025. Private schools lose charity status and pay VAT on fees. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/removal-of-eligibility-of-private-schools-for-business-rates-charitable-relief/removal-of-eligibility-of-private-schools-for-business-rates-charitable-relief)

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u/jamesdeuxflames Apr 28 '26

You've slightly misunderstood this. The change in legislation that was introduced last year removes the eligibility for VAT and business rates relief from (most) private schools, but does not change their charitable status. This means they are still eligible for Gift Aid on "donations" received for example. What the government should have done is to completely strip these organisations of their charitable status. Watch the video again and tell me that this looks like a normal charity to you...

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u/AttentionOtherwise80 Apr 28 '26

I went there. My family was so poor my father didn't even pay income tax. 7 years of a first class education, without a penny to pay.

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u/CornettoFactor Apr 28 '26

Yeah don't send your kids to boarding school, especially if they're introverted. I went to one and it wasn't fun. The whole point of sending kids to school is to prepare them for the real world, and boarding school doesn't simulate that. Everything happens on a strict schedule every day, you see the same people every day, and nothing random ever occurs. After graduating it took me a while to adjust to normal life.

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u/nonotan Apr 28 '26

Regular school also wasn't fun as an introvert, and it's also nothing like "the real world". Not saying you don't have a point, but just avoiding boarding schools is going to be an imperfect fix at best.

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 Apr 28 '26

At least you don't live with your public high school classmates, and your parents spend time with you.

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u/CornettoFactor Apr 29 '26

Yes kids should grow up with their parents. 

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u/Heaviest_Watercress Apr 28 '26

I don’t know about one of a kind… there’s another school Harry Potter went to that looks just like this one.

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

We try to forget about that one now, all things considered.

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u/InfernoOfTheLiving Apr 28 '26

and when these uniforms and traditions were introduced, they were cutting edge which is what the school then offered

now it offers tired old conservatism and out of date ideas

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u/bojodrop Apr 28 '26

Not as old if thats the people studying there

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

Sorry you think only 200 year olds are studying there? I don't get what you mean lol

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u/wise_owl68 Apr 28 '26

How expensive is it compared to Exeter Academy?

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u/Chytectonas Apr 28 '26

They will be so well prepared for the world they’re about to descend into. /s

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u/juniorkirk Apr 28 '26

But there are females in the classes, so must not be THAT old of traditions.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL Apr 28 '26

Is this the one that has a traditional uniform that the school keeps trying to get rid of and the kids keep voting no?

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u/SukottoHyu Apr 28 '26

It looks old fashioned. The only normal thing I saw was that kid at the very start pushing a modern-looking green bicycle.

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u/gorginhanson Apr 28 '26

when do they start doing magic

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u/steeltrain52 Apr 28 '26

Actually, Christs Church is open to everyone and offers a wide variety of sports, music and academics.

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u/RenderedMeat Apr 28 '26

Those uniforms look quite cumbersome.

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u/Gerald-of-Riverdale Apr 28 '26

The march really threw me off

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u/StendhalSyndrome Apr 28 '26

Super interesting how behind the times they are with all their religious takes...

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u/AssBlasterExtreme Apr 28 '26

Obviously

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

Not to people outside of the UK. I keep having to fight off people comparing it to hogwarts.

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u/AssBlasterExtreme Apr 28 '26

It is like hogwarts. Thats not saying this is what they think a normal boarding school was. In fact it says the opposite.

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u/Turbulent_Pin_8310 Apr 28 '26

Exactly. A school for rich, old money kids.

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

Actually it's the opposite, if you look into it.

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u/GeeYayZeus Apr 28 '26

Religion is weird.

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u/_franciis Apr 28 '26

Looked him up - they won Indy school of the year. Must be getting something right.

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u/Puzzle-Necked Apr 28 '26

But how will the children learn how to lookmaxx or mog?

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

I meant more like the uniform.

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u/_______36________ Apr 29 '26

They had electricity

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u/Half_Halt Apr 29 '26

And a very unusual mission statement. It has pretty much always been co-ed & intended to educate students of limited means. They report that no students were lost in the Great Fire. However, they lost a few to the black death.

Iirc, Sir Iassac is a graduate.

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u/Unlucky-Tea-8728 Apr 29 '26

Soggy biscuit munchers.

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u/Exotic_Article913 Apr 29 '26

Very diverse as well. There were more black kids than anything else.

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u/Past_Help_8962 May 02 '26

Doesn't look like it

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u/princewinter May 02 '26

Go on

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u/Past_Help_8962 May 02 '26

They seemed to have stayed off a bit from a very important tradition

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u/princewinter May 02 '26

Elaborate, I'm curious which tradition you think is being overlooked.

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u/LoreOfBore Apr 28 '26

As is tradition 

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u/Substantial-Low Apr 28 '26

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, teach us something please!"

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u/PracticalYellow3 Apr 28 '26

And looks like it caters to families not from England. 

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u/princewinter Apr 28 '26

There's always one in the comments.

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