Seems Prince George will be attending Eton after all, same as his father and Uncle Harry.

Callistemon21 I also endured a single sex convent won’t call it an education.
My friend is fantastically brilliant and definitely odd .
My son had a girl complain that it wasn’t fair because my son did no work and still gained much higher marks. That’s life - seriously though very bright children are not always best motivated. My son just laughed what else could he do?

The idea that clever boys are bullies is quite insulting.

I read the OP’s comment re normal as boys coming from ordinary middle class backgrounds, not necessarily royalty, aristocracy or very rich.

Joseann

Yes, Urmstongran, I believe around 20% of the boys at Eton receive financial help. The school, like most stuffy independents, has moved on enormously in the last 25 years. It's unlikely they would accept less than extremely bright children, but Prince George might be the exception, thanks to his title!

This is not unusual. My last secondary school was originally an inner city "school for orphans" which actually meant it educated children whose fathers had died.

It was initially funded rather like the group that was the inspiration for the NHS. A group of Warehousemen and Clerks paid a simple insurance so their children would be educated if they died. This was the same group who have been seen as the inventors of the "weekend" giving rest at the end of the working week.

However, this inspiring chapter in our social history was not led by people like the far-left on here, who often give the impression they would rather chop their children's feet off than let them go to a fee paying school, but by very pragmatic people. In order to pay for the "orphans" education, uniform and board, they moved the school out to a more leafy area and took fee-paying day pupils and boarders.

Eton College has not just hit upon change in the last 25 years. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI who made provision for 70 poor boys, known as King's Scholars, to be housed and educated at Eton free of charge. That tradition has continue until today at the school where I doubt their stuffy attitude is any worse than the pious and sneering one we hear from the more extreme members here

This is one of those ‘a royal insider’ stories, is it even true?

The Daily Mirror !

sodapop

I agree Smileless distasteful to assume Prince Geiorge was neither normal ( whatever that means) or intelligent because of his family.

I agree too, but he could be a genius and there would still be distasteful comments.

Casdon

This is one of those ‘a royal insider’ stories, is it even true?

I heard on the grapevine that William suggested Eton to Catherine , she said no, Msrlborough, and someone overheard the heated discussion ......

But please don't tell anyone.

George favours the local comprehensive.

Smileless2012

I wonder how you would feel Grandma if your GS was admitted to Eton and it was suggested that their entrance requirements had been 'adjusted' to make that possible?

Totally agree.

SORES

Logistically and pragmatically Eton is the best choice,
in close proximity, walking distance to the Castle, cycling distance to his current Windsor home, his contemporaries will be poshos like him, possibly from his primary school, a little too egalatarian at Marlborough and an increased security risk.
Plus at Eton no distracting girls.
Will George attend this year? will he move at age 13 ?
He is exactly the ‘type’ of young man Eton expects, with
no hint that he is below par academically.

Plenty of poshos at Marlborough.

Entrance exams from prep schools are taken at age 13 and not 10.

Smileless 2012,Carole Middleton has quite a lot of other stuff to worry her following the collapse of her business.

Callistemon21
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Smileless2012

I wonder how you would feel Grandma if your GS was admitted to Eton and it was suggested that their entrance requirements had been 'adjusted' to make that possible?

I don’t quite get you point here. I wasn’t suggesting the entrance requirements had been adjusted for this particular Prince, but just that in general schools like Eton get the pupils they want, whether for social or academic reasons.

I don't suppose they considered a State comprehensive where most kids end up. Some of them are very good: my nephews went from one to Oxbridge.

I don’t suppose they considered a State comprehensive school

No, I don’t suppose they did.

And if I were them, neither would I.

Calendargirl

I don’t suppose they considered a State comprehensive school

No, I don’t suppose they did.

And if I were them, neither would I.

I wouldn’t either. Not because of the potential for a good education but because of the need for security.

Eton accepted Prince Harry, so not every boy there is a high achiever.

Eton has always offered scholarships to children from local state schools. We lived in Berkshire when DS was 11 and it was suggested to us that he should sit the Eton scholarship exam. We decided against it.

Seems to be a lot of inverted snobbery on here, and casting aspersions about the, guessed at, educational abilities of a small boy. Shame on those who mock.

Callistemon, it seems fairly clear that girls benefit from single sex high schools. Boys do better in mixed high schools.

Freya no one is mocking the child. We know nothing about his ability, we know nothing about his parents' wishes. What we do know about is the profile of the type of child Eton will accept, and the selection procedure. We can, therefore, have a purely speculative discussion if we wish. No one is casting aspersions about his educational abilities. I personally wish George well at whatever school he will attend, as I would any child, at any school, and I hope he will be happy.

Mollygo

Calendargirl

I don’t suppose they considered a State comprehensive school

No, I don’t suppose they did.

And if I were them, neither would I.

I wouldn’t either. Not because of the potential for a good education but because of the need for security.

Surely there will be some security costs at Eton. The extra security cost at a State school would be offset by not having to pay fees.

I’m thinking of the welfare and security of all the children. What an extra incentive (which some of them already do without the need for that) to have some turn up at the school with knives or guns, just for the thrill of shooting the heir to the throne, uncaring of the fallout on other pupils.
What a thrill for those who see it as ‘fun’ to disrupt lessons to be able to boast that they had done it in George’s class too.
What a disruption for the parents dropping their children off at school and finding even fewer parking spaces because of the security fleet. I’m not saying any of this wouldn’t happen at Eton, but presumably they have things already in place.
It finally comes down to parental choice-just as M0nica demonstrated her exercised her right to parental choice.

I understand that Prince George wants to go on to Eton, following in his father's footsteps. He apparently greatly admires his father and copies him in many ways, school being one of those ways. As Eton is boys only, perhaps Princess Charlotte will attend Marlborough? Compromise is a wonderful thing!! Prince Louis will probably head for Eton, time come.

George will have school friends who will go to Eaton

Grantanow

Mollygo

Calendargirl

I don’t suppose they considered a State comprehensive school

No, I don’t suppose they did.

And if I were them, neither would I.

I wouldn’t either. Not because of the potential for a good education but because of the need for security.

Surely there will be some security costs at Eton. The extra security cost at a State school would be offset by not having to pay fees.

No it wouldn’t, by any means. State schools have no security, whereas Eton already does, so the cost of site security as well as personal security would be far higher than the cost of the fees if he went to a state school. I’m not arguing the rights and wrongs, just stating the facts.