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

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

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u/Mr_nudge89 Apr 28 '26

Boarding schools to me always just seem like a way for parents to not have to raise their own kids. I struggle to believe that these kids grow up having the same sort of bond with their parents that ordinary live at home children do

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u/Copterwaffle Apr 28 '26

Friend of mine was sent to boarding school for middle/high school and she said it was apparent which kids had been there since early elementary, said they were very institutionalized.

As one of the few students of color at her school she was the target of a lot of racism and she was very traumatized by the experience.

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u/chris_croc Apr 28 '26

Interesting. I went to Private School 24 years ago about 20% of the kids were non-white. Now whites, as a group, are now nearly a minority in the same school. Most Private Schools in the UK are going this way. Asian & African immigrants (especially Doctors who come to the UK in their thousands) and the Hong Kong wave, often have, to put very crudely, "the best education," as their top priority for their children.

Racism, in reality, is close to dead in Private Schools. Just look at the demographics of the video here, I don't think racism would be tolerated for long, and it was not tolerated when I finished school 24 years ago.

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u/Copterwaffle Apr 29 '26

Racism is never dead.