Bursary school

Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to play the poverty card

HAD DINNER WITH MY FRIEND Sophie last night, who kept going on about some flyer that one of the big West London private schools had pushed through her door advertising bursaries, a bit like those bloody cards from Savills. She lives in Kilburn, so the school is presumably stuffing these flyers indiscriminately into every average looking terrace — but she was clearly taking it as “a sign” that her ten-year-old Wilf should apply. Wilf is currently at some state primary you have to live opposite to get into, where they make a big deal of not setting homework. Even madder, her husband Alex is convinced it’s a Big Brother situation and that the school must “know” that they have a child of Year Six age on the premises, probably via…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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