Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik howard Haunted by nightmares

Haunted by nightmares

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Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik howard Haunted by nightmaresThis timely book is a trenchant jaccuse against Britains public school system, said Houman Barekat in The Guardian. As Robert Verkaik points out, schools such as Eton and Winchester were once truly public, in that their statutes expressly excluded the children of the wealthy. Those days, however, have long passed: today, while public schools retain their charitable status (conferring tax advantages worth some 2. 5bn a year), they have become a means