Pride & Privilege
Producer: Saltire Film and Television
Director: Stephen Bennett
Run time: 60 minutes
Glenalmond College is one of Scotland’s oldest and most prestigious public schools. Nestled in the middle of the rolling hills of Perthshire, it costs nearly £24,000 a year to send your child there.
It’s a world where ancient Greek and lacrosse go hand in hand; where Chapel is mandatory six days a week; and where class sizes range from 2 to 20 pupils. But beneath the formality it’s also a place where pupils have their own bar, a sauna and find ways to sneak in cigarettes and alcohol.
Now for the first time in over 160 years it has granted one state educated child a full 100% scholarship. How will he fare? Will the public school bubble embrace him or spit him out…?
