Dick Whippington
& The Posh Boys of Beaton
This is a satire/ parody/ spoof/ mockery of public school (ie Expensive, Elite and Private) education of the British “Elite”.
Dick is living with his family, The Controller (his mother) and The Cough (his father). He has just left his ‘Preparatory’ school, Conformingham Academy for the sons of Elite Gentlemen and is about to go to his ‘Public’ school, which Dick is told is the most revered, respected, expensive and ‘Correct’ Public School in the world – Beaton College.
Here, he will be educated (beaten?) into the correct shape of an ‘Elite Gentleman’ taught to regard ordinary people as livestock and himself as part of a superior race.
And he was formally instructed that it will be ‘The Making of Him’, and it will be ‘The Happiest Days of His Life’.
The Correct, Proper, Approved Education for The Elite
Writing is where I discover the stories that have always lived within me each book a journey, each page a revelation.
— Clif Laurence
About The Author
Clif Laurence
Clif Laurence is a boarding school survivor (and a member of BSS – Boarding School Survivors/Concern in UK), having experienced the whole boarding gamut of ‘Preparatory’ and ‘Public’ schools from ages 8 to 18. He was sent away to his prep school at age eight and experienced abandonment in the name of ‘love’, which he found confusing, if not soul destroying. He left public school at eighteen and went into engineering via a “Student Apprenticeship”, four days learning at a factory and one day at Technical College. At this time he found his education had little prepared him for the ordinary world. As time went by he came to feel that the whole British system of boarding school education, touted as “The best education money can buy” was nothing of the sort but was, in fact, highly destructive to a developing boy.
Under his everyday name he has published several non-fiction books, this is his first fiction book, published under pen name, Clif Laurence.