Comment by AnimalMuppet
4 days ago
> But the entrance exam was heavily biased in favour of children from middle class backgrounds.
> Famously the first 11+ tests had questions like "Name the various types of servants in a household and what they do".
That doesn't sound like a question a middle class kid would know anything about - not unless your definition of "middle class" is far different from mine.
British "middle class" is a higher class than US "middle class", and servants were relatively cheaper back then.
Think in terms of the family in Mary Poppins. That's Middle Class.