Elitism

Juan Mourep

Juan Mourep

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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/24/rackets-player-ben-cawston-private-school-tournament-_n_5020183.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl11%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D252146

Rackets Player Ben Cawston Excluded By Public Schools From Tournament As He's A State School Pupil

A talented rackets-playing teen champion is being forced to watch his teammates compete in a public school tournament from the sidelines as he has been barred from playing - because he attends a state school.

Ben Cawston, who at 14 years old became the first state-education pupil to win a national public schools competition, is not allowed to play in this week's doubles tournament, due to being a pupil at a comprehensive. The teenager attends Westgate Comprehensive School in Winchester but trains at the prestigious Winchester College alongside his professional rackets-playing father.

Despite winning the under-15 singles competition at Queen's Club in West Kensington, Ben was told he could not compete after 14 public schools, including Eton and Harrow, voted to exclude state school players for the first time.

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Classless society?!

Fear, haven't you found a "******" emoticon yet?

 
Surely this decision could be challenged through prejudice disgraceful decision.
 
Hopefully no one is surprised.

And these are the people that rule this country, including the royals that so many bow to.

Always angers and baffles me how people can subjugate themselves so.
 
Surely in a competition run by public schools for public schools it is up to the public schools who enter. Why should it bother anyone barred from entering? It's not as if it's a national competition, from what I can see. Or should Birmingham Poly, sorry CEU, complain about not being allowed to enter a team into the boat race?
 
Villan Of The North - 25/3/2014 17:45

Surely in a competition run by public schools for public schools it is up to the public schools who enter.
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"Ben was told he could not compete after 14 public schools, including Eton and Harrow, voted to exclude state school players for the first time"

So they were allowed and are now not.


Why should it bother anyone barred from entering?
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If historically you are allowed to enter a competition, and you've worked your socks off to become a champion, and then you are voted out, why wouldn't that bother you? It's elitist, it's wrong, people should be bothered by things that are wrong, shouldn't they?


Or should Birmingham Poly, sorry CEU, complain about not being allowed to enter a team into the boat race?
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The one that is historically between Oxford and Cambridge! :69:



 
Well Itally were allowed into the old 5 nations comp when they raised their standards, why not allow other universities to compete in the boat race? It's a privately arranged competition, not a nationalally ranking competition. Who cares what private groups do among themselves. If they want to exclude someone it is sadly their right. I'm not supporting them doing it but I'll defend their right to do it to anyone, they have no morale or legal obligation to invite entries from anyone that they don't want entries from.
 
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