I am moderately embarrassed by the fact that I went to a public school.
As am I by the fact that I went to a private school.
Can we switch?
You would not have liked my school.
Would I have heard of it?
Simfan, you should move to the UK and tell everyone you went to a "public school". You might have to bluff some of the arcane details of the arcane public schools (possibly make one up, Eton and Harrow might be too on the nose) but you'll get a thumbs up from the upper middle-class.
Charterhouse? Worksop? Blue Coat?
Maybe I should do the same here. Claim I went to somewhere less... pedestrian than Suburban High School. Blair Academy, perhaps? Possibly a bit too close to home, but I'm reasonably familliar.
I should have done it for real back in middle school. Applied for a minority scholarship and everything. I know quite a few people who did that, actually. Now I have this permanent stain on my record.