Seeing as fee paying schools are, by their very nature, accessible to only a small portion of the population through their fees and the family connections required to attend, they are merely another social mechanism to retain Britain's wealth within a select elite. ... Granted, those who receive financial assistance at such institutions are undoubtedly a small minority – even in today's political climate, only 20% of current Etonians receive means tested financial assistance, but these schemes' existence in the first place surely dispels any notion of the ruling class...

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