So Corbyn will kiss the Queen's hand to clinch his party's £6.2 million payout, I guess he'd have kissed her arse if necessary. My, how quickly he's prostituted his principles...
How on earth can you regret sending your kids privately? Mine went privately and I don't regret a penny of it. Private education is still better than the best state schools.
OK, I'll break my purdah on you just this once as that seems an honest question. I don't regret them going to these schools, they are good places. I regret having to send them privately at all because the state alternatives were so poor. Neither of the schools they went/ currently go to (one is now too old for school) are, in my opinion, any better academically than the state grammar I went to. But both are outstanding at providing opportunities for sport, which you don't seem to get at all in the state sector now.
Private School is worth it if your kid isn't naturally intelligent. I went to state school and not a single kid in the entire country got better grades than I did at A-Level. Then uni is a massive equaliser. I now work in the City and my team of less than 20 people includes a couple of ex-Malborough, Radley, Rugby, Harrow, Stow, and a couple from Dulwich. Some others did also go but i'm not sure which school's I find it amusing that they're parents spent literally hundreds of thousands of pounds to get the same job as me. Many of them got their jobs through family connections and exam results they couldn't have hoped to achieve at a state school. But because they've landed in jobs which for some of them at least is a little beyond them i'm at an advantage. Private school has achieved it's aim in getting them these jobs. But because my area of work is so greatly filled with private school kids who if they went to state school would not have made it, luckily for me it makes it that much easier to outperform them and move up the ladder.
Perhaps private educaton would have taught you some humility. Plenty of kids get all A* at 'A' Level. It's an achievement but hardly unique.
That's a fair answer, and thanks for taking the time to answer it. I appreciate it. I think the class sizes privately are the clincher. Even the best grammar schools cannot compete with class sizes, which I believe are probably 30 or 40, compared with less than half that in the private schools.
Public school fees are paid from private funds but in a public place, after some publicity in private trade magazines. As any fule kno.
It's not all about what job you end up with after going to Public School. That is just the tip of the iceberg. It's the whole broad spectrum of education that it provides. I'll leave it at that on this topic, because anything else I say could get me into hot water!
It confuses us too, and it makes Americans' heads explode. We don't call public shools private schools though. We call them state schools. Although where that leaves privately run academies in the state (or public) sector, or the hideous "faith" schools ....buggered if I know. As I probably would be if I went to a "faith" school.
Watching the build up to PSV - United and Souness is doing the analysis along with....................'Arry!
Private schools are a status symbol and nothing more. Every child needs the same level of education whether rich or poor. just because someone has money they should be allowed a better education.......disgraceful.....every child needs a chance and money should not come in to it......
You better make sure everyone earns exactly the same then, no matter what they do, and have no choice in how they spend their money. The disgrace is the standard of the state system (in general, there are always brilliant exceptions and kids who succeed against the odds). Private education is an easy and lazy target, if Corbyn gets in with a like minded majority he can legislate it away instantly. But that won't mean every kid gets a decent education.
I didn't go to a private school as my parents couldn't afford it, not sure they would have sent me if they could have tbh. By sheer hard work and not a small element of luck I somehow managed to eventually pass professional qualification. I'm sure the state system was better in the early 80's if only by virtue of smaller class numbers. My son goes to a fairly low level private school. I appreciate this may ultimately impair his ability to rap and speak street talk, but I think he will get an overall better education and I feel it is parents duty to do the best by their children. Paying for a better education, if your child is not naturally gifted (as is the case with my lad) and if you can stretch to the cost, is a must in my view. Another big bonus is that your kid is less likely to be stabbed.
I'm sorry but that's rubbish. Very many parents sacrifice a lot for the best education. It's certainly not all about having loads of disposable money to fritter away on a status symbol school.. They give up holidays, nice cars, and all that kind of luxury. They are ordinary people, with ordinary jobs who want the best for their kids. Nothing whatsoever to do with a status symbol.
