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[hathycol]

I had a lot to write about today, but honestly, I am so angry right now I can't do anything other than relate what happened to me in my ME1002 tutorial:

Arsehole: Ramble ramble something about Hellenic culture...

Me: Sorry, Hellenic is Greek, right?

Arsehole: Oh, yes, yes. Oh, sorry, I forgot you might not know what it meant; you're the one that went to a comprehensive Northern school so won't have the same educational opportunities...

I couldn't think of what to say. Option one was to thump him, tell him I went to the second best college in the country and that at least I wasn't relying on Mummy and Daddy to get me through my education, and the second was to burst into tears and feel inadequate. I just went "I didn't do classics so I didn't really know, thank you for clearing it up for me and didn't say anything for the rest of the class.

The tutor did cough and say in a very Scottish accent "I would argue there's nothing classical Greek in that source" and I could have hugged her.

spockette, I'm sorry for not being in RU1012 but I had to sit through a lecture after that I probably would have exploded under the weight of working-class guilt and the urge to kill things.

Am I somehow a bad person because my education was paid for by the tax-payer? No, that's not even it, it was the total contempt in his voice as he said 'working class' and then the pity. Am I somehow a lesser person? Is my education and intelligence worse? God, next time I won't ask.

Combined with a tutorial in which I got the mick taken out of me for using 'Native American' and asking if that was the current term used in academia I just wanted to cry a lot.

It was unfair and I shouldn't get so narked by this but I am.

[eta: it may be worth pointing out that, well, he said in a sort of matter-of-fact tone, as though he wasn't putting me down for it, it was just a statement of fact that my education was limited because of how much money my parents earned and where I came from. It wasn't even nasty, so I can't get as justifiably angry. Bah.]

~Hathy_Col~

Comments

[susie22.livejournal.com]

bastard! god, they can be such pillocks here sometimes! i think i would have reacted the same as you though, i cant stand confrontation ... its like when i was living with the yah and one of the first things she said to me was "do you have a student loan" i looked uncertain and said yes and she laughed lightly and said "i dont". for gods sake, they dont have a clue about life. one of the nicer yah boys in sallies was very puzzled to discover that i separate my whites when i do laundry ... hadnt a clue about the reasoning behind it. a lot of them are lovely, but its the few twats that give them their bad reputation. as for fewer educational opportunities, well ... come on, winstanley was bloody brilliant, we had tons of opportunities, we went to bloody new york in feb. i honestly dont believe private education is the way forward.

*hugs*

ignore them, theyre wankers when theyre being like that.

let me know when you fancy going out for hot choc. i think i may have developed a higher yah immunity through living in sallies, but all the same sometimes they can just say really awful things and they dont even see it.