[motogpjimbo]

The point is that the school won't reject a child because their parents don't work in a particular industry or belong to a certain religious organisation, as was sometimes the case with "private" schools previously. Both private and public schools pre-date state schools in the UK, hence the confusion over the terminology.

[arethuza]

Our son went to a public school and my wife came back from a meeting at the school amused that she had managed to catch sight of the schools evaluation of us as parents - she scored very highly as an advocate (Scottish equivalent of a barrister) and I was scored down for being a humble computing type.

Both of us thought this was hilarious!

[SilasX]

But the parent followed up and said that part isn’t true true either though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33275396

So… what’s left to make the joke work?