It also shows just how little she's accomplished since leaving school. I would bet that most people who become head girl/boy end up accomplishing greater things in uni and beyond that end up defining them, it's really strange to still be hung up on it after graduating uni.
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She's always placed her time as head girl on a pedestal as being some crowning achievement in her life, to the point where she'd still bragging about it in her Linkedin personal statement at the age of 22. It would not shock me at all if this was her way of trying to vicariously reliving her time as head girl, given her unhealthy obsession with young girls and trying to retreat into childhood.
This is the creepiest thing Ruby has possibly ever said. Imagine if a 22 year old guy did this.
Yeah, it's just wildly unbelievable lies. She claims that somehow, their profit margin for this new, more expensive planner is drastically less than the last, cheaper one, and to turn a profit she's need to charge £20.50 - £2 more than the already insane £18.50.
Gonna need to see how you mathed that math, Ruby, because my calculator says it's bull.
40 pages of cheap recycled paper do not amount to £4 of difference per unit at wholesale supplier prices. This is just Ruby lying through her teeth and jacking up the prices to try to milk this year for all it's worth because she and her management know that the Pumpkin Productivity gravy train is coming to a stop.
I mostly went to state schools, but got a bursary/scholarship to go to a boarding school for the GCSE years. I have to second this post - it's not normal behaviour, even at private schools where 'networking' (I hate that word) is more common. Speaking from experience, it would be normal to:
-go to alumni events, e.g. dinners or class reunions (though the people attending these are usually a lot older, i.e. a few decades removed from their school days).
-maybe add a teacher as a Facebook friend once you've left the school.
-return to give a careers talk if you've done something interesting. I remember a professional golfer, an aircraft engineer, and someone who'd gone to do aid work in India. They would never invite themselves to do the talks, though; it's organised by the school.
-go to a fundraiser - but it wasn't a frequent thing.
-one girl returned for a year as a P.E. instructor because she was aiming for a job in sports coaching iirc.
Nobody would randomly turn up at the school after they'd left. I actually don't think it was allowed unless you had a good reason to be on the school grounds. Even the scenarios I've listed weren't that common. I went back to this school two years after leaving (to sit an exam) and needed a background check! Returning wasn't a fun experience either because none of my friends were there & I felt like a stranger in a familiar place. Also worth noting that a lot of the boarding students went back to their home countries and my friends were more likely to visit former classmates in these countries than go back to school.
I'm sorry this post is so long and rambling. I just can't emphasise enough how bizarre Ruby's head girl comment is, even by her standards. It's unhealthy and creepy behaviour.
I took some screenshots from Roobees Instagram story. Feel free to use them for profile pics!
The thing is, I bet she was friends with the Year 8s. I remember a post on her Instagram where she said she spent her lunchtime in the library with a Year 8 learning so many digits of Pi when she was in sixth form. I think she's deleted it now but it's sad because I think she probably remembers those kids as friends and they only remember her as the Youtube girl from their school.
"The book recommendation is Hamlet by Shakespeare because this outfit kinda reminds me of Ophelia and Hamlet is a really good play. It's bettah watched I- I suspect but I haven't watched it, I've only read it and I did like it when I read it. And, erm, a TEA recommendation... I don't know, something like Russian caravan? Russian caravan's very good."
Good job looking up the character list, Roobee. Most book recommendations include some overview of the plot and themes, and most tea recommendations include a description of the flavor.
How on earth does she have a literature degree if the only thing she can say about Hamlet is to identify that it is a play which was intended to be performed on stage? It's very telling that she considers reading the play more boring than watching the murders play out on stage would be. She doesn't like reading, finding connections, analyzing characters, or anything else that a "bookworm" supposedly would love.
Good job looking up the character list, Roobee. Most book recommendations include some overview of the plot and themes, and most tea recommendations include a description of the flavor.
How on earth does she have a literature degree if the only thing she can say about Hamlet is to identify that it is a play which was intended to be performed on stage? It's very telling that she considers reading the play more boring than watching the murders play out on stage would be. She doesn't like reading, finding connections, analyzing characters, or anything else that a "bookworm" supposedly would love.
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Nah I have to say, I don’t think the school shouldn’t be entertaining this. They will because she can give them clout and exposure, but in all seriousness I don’t think she should be interacting with any students at the school, especially the younger ones. I can’t articulate myself but there’s just something very off about the fact she has said that she wants to go to see who the new head girl is, it kinda feels a bit groomerish and I just think if it was a bloke going back to his old school specifically for that reason, then alarm bells would be ringing 
Ruby just wandering the halls of her old school befriending children while looking 65 years old as if it's totally normal, like Ben Platt in the Dear Evan Hansen movie.
This is beyond creepy. The school should not enable this tit and neither should parents.
Oh, I hadn't considered the fact that she might still know the younger students (who would now be school leaving age). Doesn't make it any less weird though!
Have you watched the Jenny Nicholson video on Dear Evan Hansen? I highly recommend it if you want to laugh about Ben Platt the elderly high schooler. It's also interesting that the reply calling Ruby out has 50 likes and her post only has 27.
Btw, in her planner screenshot, one of the things she wants to learn about is 'Derrida's philosophy' if i've read that correctly. Lord help us, that'll be fun.
No she doesn’t ‘still know about 4 years worth of girls’? She is an adult now and left school ages ago, she won’t have kept in contact with these girls.
I’m 25 and can barely remember the people from my own school year, let alone people from any other years.
I don’t know if this is a private school thing and it’s just more of an everyone knows everyone cosy environment compared to normal schools, but my head has absolutely fallen off reading that tbh.
I do think this is true to an extent, though it probably varies from school to school. Private schools tend to be much smaller, so it's normal to know people from different years. That said, what Ruby's doing would still be considered strange even in that environment. And a lot of schools (most?) post their head girl news on the 'news' section of their website or in the school newsletter, so if she's really that desperate to find out she could just do a google search. No need to be there in person! I think Ruby is just looking for any excuse to go back to school tbh.
P.S. I noticed she's not in any rush to go back to Exeter.
Ben Platt in the Dear Evan Hansen movie
Lmao I immediately thought of Jenny's video too. "Mommy why is this grown man singing at us"Oh, I hadn't considered the fact that she might still know the younger students (who would now be school leaving age). Doesn't make it any less weird though!
Have you watched the Jenny Nicholson video on Dear Evan Hansen? I highly recommend it if you want to laugh about Ben Platt the elderly high schooler. It's also interesting that the reply calling Ruby out has 50 likes and her post only has 27.
Btw, in her planner screenshot, one of the things she wants to learn about is 'Derrida's philosophy' if i've read that correctly. Lord help us, that'll be fun.
I can't even remember who was head girl in my year at school and I'm only a year older than Ruby, it is strange imo to keep going back. Probably because she peaked in high school so its her 'safe space' to go back to
She is soooo creepy. Like someone else said, if Jack Edwards literally wrote that he was going back to his old high school to “see who the head girl was 
” there would be a riot
This is another way as well for Ruby to bring back attention to a head girl as if it’s something to be proud of. By mentioning it, she’s validating it herself.
Why is she so obsessed with high school though? It’s frightening. She wasn’t even “peaked in high school” either as by her own words she got bullied. Is this what it is? She enjoys the time when she was bullied because she was the victim? She doesn’t like having to admit that her own faults and failures now are due to her and not cos three girls looked at her weirdly and called her a bookworm? Interesting
” there would be a riotThis is another way as well for Ruby to bring back attention to a head girl as if it’s something to be proud of. By mentioning it, she’s validating it herself.
Why is she so obsessed with high school though? It’s frightening. She wasn’t even “peaked in high school” either as by her own words she got bullied. Is this what it is? She enjoys the time when she was bullied because she was the victim? She doesn’t like having to admit that her own faults and failures now are due to her and not cos three girls looked at her weirdly and called her a bookworm? Interesting
Yeah I went and watched the actual tiktok out of shock at some of these comments, and she even says it’s actually a ‘parents day / beach day’ which makes it even weirder? Like you’re not a parent of a child at the school ruby ffs if you care so much just google it?I do think this is true to an extent, though it probably varies from school to school. Private schools tend to be much smaller, so it's normal to know people from different years. That said, what Ruby's doing would still be considered strange even in that environment. And a lot of schools (most?) post their head girl news on the 'news' section of their website or in the school newsletter, so if she's really that desperate to find out she could just do a google search. No need to be there in person! I think Ruby is just looking for any excuse to go back to school tbh.
P.S. I noticed she's not in any rush to go back to Exeter.
I do think she classes her stint as head girl as her biggest life achievement and is probably itching to meet the new one so she can give her some unsolicited advice on how to be the VARY best head girl she can possibly be
At my (State) school it was quite normal for students to go back and visit in the first year of uni, just to catch up with the teachers and talk about uni and your plans for the future and stuff like that. I went around December of my first year of uni with two friends.
After that though I've never returned just because I felt like it lol. I went back to retrieve the physical copy of my diploma when it was ready, and a couple friends and my boyfriend were invited by the school for orientation day to talk to the seniors about the course they chose, the uni they're attending, etc. (I wasn't invited. I was too much of an amoeba in high school for any teachers to remember me after I left). That's about it as far as "contact with old schools" goes in my experience. I graduated four years ago and it would be really weird and awkward for everyone if I just popped up one day to say hi to teachers I haven't spoken to since then.
After that though I've never returned just because I felt like it lol. I went back to retrieve the physical copy of my diploma when it was ready, and a couple friends and my boyfriend were invited by the school for orientation day to talk to the seniors about the course they chose, the uni they're attending, etc. (I wasn't invited. I was too much of an amoeba in high school for any teachers to remember me after I left). That's about it as far as "contact with old schools" goes in my experience. I graduated four years ago and it would be really weird and awkward for everyone if I just popped up one day to say hi to teachers I haven't spoken to since then.
Also is it one of yous that keeps commenting on her videos calling her a tory lmao I see them in every single tiktok comment
Can you imagine if she brought her parents along?
I don't think she's seeing herself as the parent in that situation.Haha, yes. Now picturing Ruby turning up and singing at unsuspecting students in his warbly voice.
I mean… she doesn’t drive, so it’s very probable Mother Granger went too.Can you imagine if she brought her parents along?
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