Incredibly off topic (but addressing an earlier issue):

I'm not saying all public schools put through students with poor speech patterns... they don't... but I wonder if they help the students to function in a corporate environment as well as the private ones do?
That's really interesting because my old boss (when I worked for one of the Big 4 LOL, but that's not relevant here) was a university lecturer for several years and was adamant that the public school kids coped with uni far better than the private school kids. He said that the private school kids had been spoon-fed far too much and the proportion of privately educated students failing their first year was extraordinary.

I must say we've had the same discussion in our house already (I'm pro-private, DH isn't) and DH in the end "won" for want of a better word. My boss's viewpoint has been quite comforting to me and you've just blown that out of the water!!