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To think if you can no longer afford school fees...

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 19:54

that is tough.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 21:01

That tactic fails to understand how school admissions work.

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Againname · 13/06/2024 21:00

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:54

There are some excellent state schools.

Something estate agents are well aware of. They price up houses near good state schools.

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 21:00

Yes, but there's so few children here. There's spaces. Average house price 400k

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EweCee · 13/06/2024 21:00

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:58

@EweCee - weren't PE parents planning to mass apply for places and then not take them up. Which wouldn't matter anyway as they'd then be vacant..

Maybe?? But that’s a tactic not a sweeping judgement and nastiness of anyone in state schools… not quite the same thing that I was commenting on.

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:59

1/5 more isn't masses more. Or is a Top 20 State School GCSE different...

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elastamum · 13/06/2024 20:59

Just because you can drive doesn't mean you can choose any school you want. You do understand catchments? Many rural kids are at the bottom of the list for just about anywhere.

Barefootsally · 13/06/2024 20:59

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 19:54

that is tough.

Ooooooooh finished sucking lemons OP? 😂

SabrinaThwaite · 13/06/2024 20:59

Allfur · 13/06/2024 20:56

So you think all people who don't agree with private school are jealous? how very enlightened

Have we had ‘politics of envy’ yet?

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:58

@EweCee - weren't PE parents planning to mass apply for places and then not take them up. Which wouldn't matter anyway as they'd then be vacant..

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Chickenuggetsticks · 13/06/2024 20:58

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:53

I'd never want any child to suffer.

Sorry but you actually sound like you are gloating about it. I have no particular opinion on VAT on school fees apart from the fact that it is a lot of fuss to probably not raise much money when it all washes out. But posts like this are really mean spirited.

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:57

We have trains too and a motorway.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:57

I'm rural. I'm an hour from a small town. You have a car?

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EweCee · 13/06/2024 20:56

I’ve said it before at the beginning of these types of threads and I’ll say it again: the vitriol is only going one way on these threads and despite what state school parents think and say, it’s not come from the private school parents…..

yes, ps parents are questioning the policy and worrying about finances - but they are not pouring the scorn, judgement, vitriol and downright nastiness at state school parents and children which is being levied against them that I’m reading on here again and again.

it’s sad - but exactly what the politicians want, pitting people against each other whilst the actual policy benefits no-one but them.

Allfur · 13/06/2024 20:56

PracticeorPractise · 13/06/2024 20:49

Jealousy.

So you think all people who don't agree with private school are jealous? how very enlightened

Blarneytalk · 13/06/2024 20:55

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:53

I'd never want any child to suffer.

Yes you do, you're horrible.

insidenumber9 · 13/06/2024 20:55

It’s 20%. My service charge rose by that this year. It is indeed, as the op puts it, tough! Build a bridge and get over it!

elastamum · 13/06/2024 20:55

If you are rural, you don't really get a choice of state schools. You get whatever is available. That's it.

Aladdinzane · 13/06/2024 20:54

@Chickenuggetsticks

"There will be kids who will abruptly be taken out of schools they are happy in. Their larents panicking trying to find them a school place for September."

This most likely won't be in force by September.

"There is something about the left that is quick to be quite unkind and inhumane towards people they don’t approve of."

Oh my, the irony of this is outstanding.

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:54

There are some excellent state schools.

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Bunnyasmyname · 13/06/2024 20:53

Allfur · 13/06/2024 20:50

Are you suggesting state parents don't want the best for their children

I didn't say that at all.

But if someone wants to spend their money on privately educating their child if they believes it offers them the best opportunities, why be happy when they can no longer afford it?

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:53

What parent would?

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:53

I'd never want any child to suffer.

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Aladdinzane · 13/06/2024 20:52

@MyBoiledEggIsTooSoft

I don't think people were too bothered till there was thread after thread of PE parents making threats.

One or two even asked other parents to apply for state school places, even when they didn't need them, to increase pressure on the system.

Chickenuggetsticks · 13/06/2024 20:52

There will be kids who will abruptly be taken out of schools they are happy in. Their parents panicking trying to find them a school place for September. Or SEN kids in an environment that isn’t utterly overwhelming for them. I don’t see that as something to be happy about.

There is something about the left that is quick to be quite unkind and inhumane towards people they don’t approve of.

Aladdinzane · 13/06/2024 20:51

@EwwSprouts

"Where youlive. And there are other parts of the country (assuming UK) where they really are not."

Who are these people that can afford to spend ( on average) 108 k on 6 years of high school education for one child, who are living in areas where there is not even a good school, 88% of all schools are good or outstanding according to ofsted?

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