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[edwardcatflap]

Look at this quote from George Orwell's 'Clergyman's Daughter', published in 1935. You can see the way hagwans are run hasn't changed much over the years


'You're not to think as I can't do without you, mind,' proceeded
Mrs Creevy. 'I can pick up teachers at two a penny any day of the
week, M.A.s and B.A.s and all. Only the M.A.s and B.A.s mostly
take to drink, or else they--well, no matter what--and I will say
for you you don't seem to be given to the drink or anything of that
kind. I dare say you and me can get on all right if you'll drop
these new-fangled ideas of yours and understand what's meant by
practical school-teaching. So just you listen to me.'


'What you've got to get hold of once and for all,' she began, 'is
that there's only one thing that matters in a school, and that's
the fees. As for all this stuff about "developing the children's
minds", as you call it, it's neither here nor there. It's the fees
I'm after, not DEVELOPING THE CHILDREN'S MINDS. After all, it's no
more than common sense. It's not to be supposed as anyone'd go to
all the trouble of keeping school and having the house turned
upside down by a pack of brats, if it wasn't that there's a bit of
money to be made out of it. The fees come first, and everything
else comes afterwards. Didn't I tell you that the very first day
you came here?'

'Yes,' admitted Dorothy humbly.

'Well, then, it's the parents that pay the fees, and it's the
parents you've got to think about. Do what the parents want--
that's our rule here.

[Perceptioncheck]

Haha - yes, I read that recently and thought almost exactly the same thing.

[tophatcat]

great

[The Cosmic Hum]

and what's up with big brother watching us all the time?

[Unposter]

Nice post!

[Jotun_Symph]

Excellent literary reference...I'm sure there are a few passages from "Animal Farm" that can be applied as well...but for now you get an A+