To ask MNHQ for a Private Schools board?

They are being sent to a state school not jail.

And if their parents can't afford to ride out till the end when they are halfway through their GCSEs then they shouldn't have sent them in the first place.

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Maybe there could be a " paid for" section of Mumsnet so they can keep the "plebs*" out

*(as a lovely private school parent on one thread called all state educated children)

Because I don't understand your point?

It sounds like you hate those ambitious "net contributors" but you love their taxes. Lots of them. On top of ingrained disdain for people better off then you, you also dehumanise them because they are more likely to vote differently due to having children in private school. Exactly what power hungry politicians want -divide and rule.

However this is forum for parents. And normal parents worry about their children. I have children at state school and I would be extremely worried if I had to move them, yet alone if I made many sacrifices for their education in a first place. It's not up to you to invalidate other parent's feelings.

Someone might aswell decide to mock you for having first world problems when children die in Gaza. Trust me - you are someone's sarcastic "poor little lamb ".

And most posts about VAT on private education weren't by private school parents anyway. Not everyone agrees with the policy for multiple reasons.

Anyone who understands wider consequences of VAT on education will have something to say. Some people like to discuss topics that go beyond their own doorstep.

You can chose not to read it.

God how spiteful. She means unpleasant things in terms of uprooting a child.

It’s true that it won’t be that pleasant for state school class sizes to have to go up with resources stretched ever thinner, but take heart, Keir will make good.

Too much enjoyment

The state school ones yes, they have been for many years.

Indeed

It's almost as if some people have such a level of entitlement that they are absolutely indignant at the mere suggestion they pay VAT and are incapable of letting it go.

Dunno, frothing from tax evaders has a certain entertainment.

But as for the kids, fuck em? Right?

Whenever I've been over to the education board, it's all been people asking about private/public schools. So I think that's pretty much the private school board.

Having to move school is disruptive and if you have to do it mid-GCSE then well to be honest it would be worse than unpleasant.

If you can't afford to keep a child in private school for one year (possibly two if your local secondary does three year GCSEs) without a VAT exemption, then you couldn't really afford it in the first place.

There's been talk about it for a while so time to look at your finances.

As for "speshul" and "younique", what a shitty thing to say about SEN children.

Oh, behave.

Wow. “Unpleasant things” as in? Going to the local state school? Or are all these children younique with speshul requirements who will all be devastated if indeed all these children have to go to the comp?

See. More nastiness. Having to move school is disruptive and if you have to do it mid-GCSE then well to be honest it would be worse than unpleasant. It would potentially mean you have to resit a year if you've not been taught the same syllabus.

As for "speshul" and "younique", what a shitty thing to say about SEN children.

These are children whose lives might be disrupted for political points. Yes I do think that is unpleasant. Children have already been very negatively affected by remote learning, and now even more disruption.

I think it is fine to have some disagreement with other adults but policies that target children like this - overnight - are awful.

Labour should be honest. Do they want to abolish private school? Fine. Do it. I'd vote for that IF it were done responsibly planned and over a long period. I think Finland did this. So it could work.

Only if people who post there are also banned from posting in AIBU. Otherwise we’ll all still get bombarded with them.

There is already a board called general election and umpteen education boards

Regardless of views on private education, there are a lot of threads and so it would make sense.

YANBU. And based on those threads, I no longer feel bad that I can't afford private school fees.

I take in ironing
sit in the dark all winter
Family cloths instead of toilet paper (sorry it’s dinner time I know)
Gruel
Got the dog put down
and a tiny, ickle violin is now all I’ve got left. 🎻

Have you thought about taking in ironing?

Let's ask for a series of boards - Royal Mumsnetters, Upper Class Mnetters, Upper Middle Class Mumsnetters, Middle Middle Class Mumsnetters, Lower Middle Class Mumsnetters, Working Class Mumsnetters, Nouveau Riche Mumsnetters, Mumsnetters without a pot to piss in ....

Yes. I myself am eating one spoon of thin gruel tonight with an onion from yesterdays bin to send Artemis and Theodorus Regus to private school.

THAT is how much I don’t spend my money on the latest Gucci or sun holiday.

This is nasty. Think what you like of parents but children will be disrupted. I wouldn't wish unpleasant things on a child.

It would be good to separate out private from primary and secondary. Only some private schools have a primary/secondary split at age 11 so it doesn't fit. It's also confusing to have 11 plus questions where the OP doesn't say they don't mean state.