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Coming from a north american public school, I can't imagine one's family paying large sums of money to send you to a boarding school... just to be some older bo
by morkalork 2y ago
Coming from a north american public school, I can't imagine one's family paying large sums of money to send you to a boarding school... just to be some older boy's servant. Get your own ass up, or don't, not my problem. I am by no means a rabid libertarian but that kind of environment would drive me to it.
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoChances are your public school doesn't have boarders. If your parents/ siblings ever woke you up...they were fagging (if not voluntary). Admittedly, some fag systems were just pure bullying, but generally not. If course, the smokers - after being woke up - would go outside and suck on a fag, but that's another story.
- 082349872349872 2y agoThe writer known as Orwell doesn't seem to have been fond of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887786 [He went to boarding school on scholarship, so that may have been another reason to have been treated poorly by the full-fare students?]
- d0gsg0w00f 2y agoI would pay large sums of money to have my kids learn the lesson that there is a hierarchy and one must always start on the bottom to understand every layer.
- madaxe_again 2y agoThat isn’t what one learns. One learns to cheat, lie, and steal, and to exploit systems and manipulate people. You don’t survive if you play by the rules. Public schools produce sociopaths, in general. Still, a valuable skillset, I must say.