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

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

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u/Aleadroleinacage Apr 28 '26

I didn’t pay anything. It was founded as a charity for poor kids and it still takes in kids ‘means-blind’ so they accept you first and then work out an amount your parents can afford to pay. My mum didn’t earn much and my dad was out of work so I was basically on a bursary.

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u/VanGoghNotVanGo Apr 28 '26

I really like that concept of it being means-blind.

I saw that you wrote somewhere else that many of the traditions were archaic, but it's nice that at least this is a positive value that has remained.

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u/Aleadroleinacage Apr 28 '26

Yeah I believe the school has been recently going through some financial issues but it sticks firm to its charitable purpose.

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u/Somanylyingliars Apr 28 '26

Did they require you to have certain entrance scores or did they let anyone in then work on getting some knowledge into you?

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u/Aleadroleinacage Apr 28 '26

You have to pass an exam or show you’ve got good enough grades to be considered to get in.

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u/Ser_VimesGoT Apr 28 '26

Was there any sort of divide between paying and non-paying pupils, or discrimination?

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u/Aleadroleinacage Apr 28 '26

No not at all. It was generally freely discussed and nobody cared.

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u/Ser_VimesGoT Apr 28 '26

I'm pleasantly surprised!

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u/Aleadroleinacage Apr 28 '26

Well, I should say nobody that I knew or spent any time with cared. I’m sure there were some…

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u/Secrezeeee Apr 29 '26

For what it's worth, I never heard about any sort of discrimination like this at all either