I work at a state primary which had a high number going to private schools, a lot piss off from about year 3 or 4 for prep school or to beat waiting lists. As a result we have a year 6 class with 16 pupils. I bet they have more.
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About 47% of students get a grade five or above in English (IE. a c or better) in state schools. I don't know figures for private schools but you'd want your money back if it was that low. It worked out well for your daughter, but I bet having a teacher (even a maths teacher) for a mum helped.
Not quite that straight forward...
Classes are smaller. The teachers vary enormously. Probably more so than in the State sector.
Like I said it varies enormously the pass rate at Mrs Q's school is about 85% well above national average. There are lots of schools much lower that drag the national state average down. The difference can be explained in one word which is resources. VAT on private schools will go some way to provide those resources for those state schools that lack them.
So are you for or against the VAT thing?
Neither really. If it raises a bit of revenue great, but all it'll do is bottom slice the private sector marginally. A few - already struggling - schools at the bottom end of the hierarchy might close. A few m/c families might switch to State, but elite reproduction will be utterly untouched.
Grabbing from the wrong end. The Truly Rich will just offshore them, the Merely Rich kids will still have tutors and extracurricular activities that put them well ahead of a working class student of the same general level of intelligence. The system whereby the State schools are starved of funding is what needs to be changed. Abolishing private schools won't do that. We need to get to a place where choosing to go to a private school is because daddy went there and they have a pool, not because the educational support is superior.
I'd be absolutely fine by that. It's the education that matters. Deconstructing the class system is a bigger project and schools shouldn't be the front line for it.
You've got my point backwards. One is something that can be fixed in the short term, the other is not. Making students suffer poor education because your big social re-engineering project is going to take decades is pretty unfair.
Perhaps the parents should be doing national service as school support staff for a reeducation exercise.
Yeah, I'd say that. It's also not just for the resources that people go to private schools - my dad had a stockbroker friend (he started off with a stockbroking job out of uni but decided to go for something with less money he enjoyed more) and my mum says she remembers a conversation where they were talking abouy getting their kids into Rodean and Eton. This couple basically said 'It's OK for your kids, they're academic but ours will need the connections'.
So it's fine then. Nothing to argue over, apparently. Losing 10% of the education budget in real terms while the number of students increased was just that fat in the system the politicians like to cut and they were right to do so. You're aware that there's already a class system in public education? In more prosperous areas, state schools regularly ask for, and get, contributions from the parents towards things like stationary and tissues and whatnot. Let alone the computers bought during Covid time. You think the education system is fine and fuck the schools where parents can't afford that. That doesn't sound like you.
