Buying Education for the Brat

In my country there is a very expensive ‘Prep’ school.   It is the place the rich send their brats.   You will never see that school winning anything; not a debate, not School’s Challenge Quiz,  not even an egg race.   You will never hear of that school being considered academically superior to the one being taught on someone’s veranda in the ghetto.

That is because the entry requirement is money.   Staying in the school is money.  Money buys everything.

Some of the more astute parents realise that the child is not being very well educated, so hire tutors to insure the child reaches some level so as to be able to gain entry to a prestigious High School.

Some do leave that Private Prep and do enter ‘name brand’ schools.   But many stay there and go to their High School, which as its Prep section, has never won anything, for the academic achievements of the spoiled brats that go there is on the level of a poor kid who misses classes on a regular basis because he doesn’t have a pair of shoes to wear.

Those who ‘graduate’ the Pricey High have Daddy pay their way into University.  Their abilities are such that they could not get into any form of tertiary school, (same maybe plumbing) so paying for entry, making donations to the tertiary institution, is the way Daddy insures that his Brat gets the on paper qualifications.

Some years ago, a Brat at the Prep wanted to go to a high ranking High School.   He didn’t have the grades.  However, he had a famous name, he had money, and so he was accepted.

During that first semester he couldn’t keep up at all.  He failed everything.  It was like stopping an average eight year old on the road and shoving him into High School before he even learned long division.

After that disaster, Brat was returned to the Prep which had its own version of a High School.  He graduated that High School and didn’t bother to try to go any further as he didn’t have the head space and knew it.

Of course, this doesn’t just happen in America.

If you go and do your own investigation into the educational history of POTUS you will find out how Daddy paid and paid and paid again.

Hence, the moral of this article, when rich people claim to have graduated from this school or that one, it is more likely Daddy paid for their acceptance and paid each year so that they could wave their Degree.