The posh have their own way of child-rearing. You don’t create the next generation of leaders by mollycoddling them, writes Zoe Williams
The posh have their own way of child-rearing. You don’t create the next generation of leaders by mollycoddling themshould definitely be investigated by somebody; if there were a tribunal court for crimes of deliberate, nay, provocative smugness, that would be ideal. Instead, social services have got involved.
Of course, I’m not a safeguarding expert. Besides, we are in a world beyond guilt and innocence, because Allsopp is – well, posh is a freighted word, so let’s go with “plentifully endowed with social capital”. You can get away with murder, childcare-wise, when you are posh. Almost everything, from travelling alone, to getting stung by a wasp, gets filed under “character-building”.
It is probably not as bad as it once was. Orwell described his prep school, St Cyprian’s in Sussex, as having the motto: “It is healthy to get up from a meal feeling as hungry as when you sat down.” I went back to look that up, thinking it a droll little snapshot of hardship as a badge of breeding, andwas such a devastating account of public school trauma that all the drollery drained away. Nevertheless, it is a genuine peculiarity of the poshos of yesteryear.
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