Hi Simon,

As a state school kid I wasn't offended until you pointed it out

I had a recent brush with the Independent School system - I was helping deliver a careers evening at our local Private School. At the end the then Careers Master asked if my friend and I could solve a long-standing debate between him and his wife. He wanted to know whether or not a butterfly was considered a bird or an insect.

Having spent several university vacations working at Eton College my general impression of the indelpendent sector has been - nice, personable, confident pupils. Wouldn't want them on my side at the pub quiz though

Pete

God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will,we will be free!