Class Wars

[Grumpmeister]

Compared to the constant news coverage of what chavs get up to I personally cant see anything offensive about this spoof. I wonder if we could turn it into an olympic sport. 

One of Scotland's top public schools has condemned a video which showed ex-pupils staging a mock "chav hunt".
"Class Wars" was posted on the internet site YouTube by former students at Glenalmond College, near Perth.

The film, which showed teenagers wearing shell suits being chased by classmates dressed as aristocrats, was partly filmed on the school grounds.

Officials have described the spoof as "deeply offensive" and said it did not reflect the ethos at the school.

The footage has now been removed from the website.

It began with one teenager in a baseball cap being pulled out of a river before being subjected to a simulated beating by a couple of tweed-wearing 'attackers'.

Another scene showed a shell suit wearing gang being chased through the school grounds by two young men dressed as huntsmen and on horseback.

They were shown being 'shot' as they ran across a field and one of the 'victims' was then prodded by an aristocrat as he lay on the ground. [/quoe]

Given that the news is full of stories of them beating the living daylighs out of one another or blasting them with the biggest guns they can find this sounds like a much more civilised approach.

The warden of Glenalmond College, Gordon Woods, said the film had been made by former pupils of the ?23,000-a-year school.

He said: "I strongly disapprove of this video. The film, although clearly intended as satire, is immature and deeply offensive.

"We understand it was made almost two years ago and the pupils involved are no longer at Glenalmond.

"I must stress it does not reflect the ethos of Glenalmond or that of the present community of boys and girls studying here.

"Since it has come to our attention we have been taking action to contact the former pupils concerned to ensure that they remove the film from the website as, regretfully, this is not within our control."

[Snoopy]

Such a pity that the disapproving Warden of Glenalmond College, Gordon Woods ~ failed to provide these "ex-pupils" with an education sufficiently broad to teach them not to be "immature and deeply offensive".
The parents ought to be seeking a substantial refund on the fees charged for their sons education because clearly it was well below the standards they thought they were paying for.
"Education is", as my old Head used to say, "much more than teaching boys their ABC ~ it's about teaching them to be gentlemen"