'We have been sold this nonsense by an elite who know the true value of education. They don't put up with this nonsense for their own kids.'

mmmmmmmmmmmm, almost all the children of the upper / professional classes get to University, even the strange children of the aristocracy. Although to be fair many of them have to be sent to enclosed institutions from the age of 8 to make sure they get into Uni.

Clearly something must be wrong when oiks from comprehensive schools in the north, who's fathers cannot be found and who's mother's are part time cleaners, are going to Uni, not quite in the same ratios but get there we do!