Private schools do exams called iGCSEs. They are accepted as being easier that GCSEs by the Government, OFSTED, private schools themselves and state schools. Most universities ignore them except for the Russell Group (they run 24 of the top universities in th UK). This means that if two students have the same A Levels the Russell Group universities will use their GCSEs and iGCSEs as the deciding factor...so those who go to private schools have a very unfair advantage.
Not all private schools do iGCSEs (I believe it’s still a minority) and those that do use them don’t necessarily only do iGCSEs.
I don’t think state schools are ****e. The problem is funding and management. Some state schools have fantastic facilities and leadership teams, others not so much. We use local school sports halls for winter cricket training. The school we’ve just started using has fantastic sports facilities, the last one we used was ****e. I have no idea why there should be such a difference.
We’re currently run by public schoolboys - expensively educated privileged twats with no clue how ordinary people live. That’s gone really well so far.
True, some are, some aren’t. My youngest went to a very good state school. From there to the LSE, where he got his degree in PPE. I doubt any private school would have improved on that.
Thats the issue i got with it The Class divide it creates...the superiority complexes it creates in people who if experience is anything to go by i find have had sheltered lives and carry one of the most annoying traits in modern people...a lack of being streetwise.
state schools do that all the time by choosing the exam board which offers the ,perceived , easier exam in a particular subject .
As ALDO said remove their charitable status so they pay business rates at least which would provide extra funds for local authorities to spend on state schools.After all the idea Repton , Eton , St Pauls , Harrow et all aren't fully functioning businesses is laughable . The only fly in the ointment is iirc that most if not all educational establishments have charitable status and may be difficult to legally separate off private schools
It isn't only rich kids whose parents have paid that go to private schools, clever children get to go too, for free, paid for by the schools 'charity'. It's a bone of contention with me and my parents, as I passed the exam to go to Whitgift on a bursary, but my parents didn't think it was fair on my bothers and sisters. Those thickos wouldn't have passed it if you'd given them the answers beforehand. A private school has the best teachers, a state run comprehensive will hire any ****ing idiot, and it's pretty much pot-luck on what you get (mine were ****ing awful, the only decent one among them turned out to be a ***** that ended up inside and hung himself). My sister didn't make the same mistake, my nephew passed the exam and she put him straight in. If you want the best for your kids, that's where you spend te money, not on PS4's & X-box's
I agree and was generalising. Should have said 'too many are ****e' and also agree it is down to local authorities and poor management usually. Same for GP's, hospitals etc. A long succession of gov't have failed to cope with the high numbers of end users, either by not building enough facilities or providing enough competent staff. I can't see why this is suddenly going to change, so alternative cures need to be sought.
Doing away with private schools will not make state schools better. It will just become a race to the bottom, as typically encouraged by the left leaning politicos.
Dont agree with everything on here but it's an interesting debate... WTF is going on? Ain't what you expect on here
It’s what happens when you don’t get certain idiots intent on disrupting the thread when things aren’t going the way they would like.
