Sometimes I do just feel like private education would be better.
I don't know if you'll have experienced scruffy chavs, coming from a private school (which, as you say, doesn't necessarily mean wealth)...but I have.
The full brunt of 3 bitches. If you disagree with them, you get told to kill yourself. If you stick up for somebody, you get even worse. They'll find something - they know everyone's ticking point. One of my friends' dad is an absolute moron - he is a 'wanker' as he described him - and he left his mother when she found out she was pregnant. He burst into tears when they used it against him...they are literally the scum of the earth.
And they don't just terrorise people, they do much more than that. We have 60 minutes in every lesson - I'd say 10-15 of that is spent;
A) Them interrupting the teacher to slag people off.
B) Them running around the classroom and damaging stuff.
C) Them insulting people.
D) Outside.
It really is torture - I know you've mentioned you went to a normal primary school...but when your in a normal secondary school - life gets tough, and I would say it's nothing to do with maturity, making and losing friends, work getting harder - it's not getting a good education at all.
I would rather be mind-fucked by a load of posh twats but still get a fantastic education - than still be mind-fucked but by a bunch of scruffy slutty bitches, and get a poor one...