"He'll be gutted when you tell him he must have had a rich dad because he'll know it couldn't be me."

Too right you should be proud of your boy, as he should be indebted to you
for providing a family environment and upbringing that values the power of education
and personal aspirations for self advancement.

I too am a product of council estate factory fodder family and grammar school education.

But sadly these days a new generation of lower income sink estate families
have lost the necessary self esteem and motivation to persuade their kids to rise up via good education.
Depriving them of the will to avail themselves of any remaining economically eroded local social & cultural opportunities