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

Well, since the UK will be an outlier in taxing its citizens for buying educational services, it is the logical extension of the principle. Which other country equates buying a luxury car with buying an education? One benefits society, the other doesn’t.

OP, you are obsessed. Get help.

Yep.

Tough shit.

On the other hand, once those children are ensconced in their nearest state school, it will do them no harm whatsoever to realise that they are no different from any of the other children in said school.

It doesn't do anything it aims to do. Savings willl be minimal due to offset and pupils moving and the administrative cost.

The true wealthy won't blink an eye, The not quite there (like us) will stay for the exam years if imminent and then will move from an area we love but is at best some years off levelling up (with the only state school provision having no sixth form and not the range of subjects particularly music my children want) to a grammar/good school area where I can afford to bump someone out of distance. That family who can't afford the house costs loses out. We'll bolt onto the provision tutoring etc.

The bursary/scholarship/doing it close to the line dependent will move - parents who are being asked to pay more are going to reluctant to pay for example the extra % we pay each year specifically for the bursary fund.

Working in full partnership to take the best of both sectors would be the better plan - and ensure it is being fully leveraged.

Sorry you seem to be under the misapprehension that I think its a good idea? I think its batshit, and incredible that Labour are happy to throw away a million odd votes over a plan that wont actually improve public servcies.

I also think all the people constantly starting threads on it are desperate.

In the small rural hamlet we live in everyone sends their DC to private schools. The local alternative is a failing school with no sixth form and no buildings as they were condemned at the start of the year. The pupils there currently attend alternative sites on a rota. The parents here aren't massively wealthy and will really feel the pinch, but it's not exactly a choice between private and a decent state school, so I guess they will find the money. Hope that makes you feel good OP. Fwiw I am a labour voter but I don't agree with the policy. Education of any kind should not be taxed.

Really bloody fed up with comments like this. As it is really an ignorant point of view.

Not every private school is done for the rich and wealthy. My sister runs a very small private school that mostly caters for children who need more help , slight special needs etc. this is going to close her down.

now. There are no fancy things at this school. Everything there is bought 2nd hand etc etc.

parents scrimp and save to send their children there as they know that they will never get the help their children need in a normal state school. And I mean they scrimp and save every penny. I know what these families are going without and doing to actually pay for this for their children and it’s not giving up holidays or cancelling Netflix. It’s way more than that.

And even then the fees are not that huge. But it is a private school so it will be classed as some of the extra posh ones.

these kids will be forced back into the state system where they will either not get the help they need or cost the state schools more. Her business will close meaning everyone who works there will loose their jobs.

but please yes go ahead and be a bitch about stuff u have no knowledge off.

It's totally goady and with no thought of the children! Really unkind and shameful.

Let's hope your child can't attend their state school, through no fault of their own, then struggles in the next school.

Wow. What a load of completely selfishes bitches on here.
Gloating over kids having to leave their schools.
Do you generally enjoy unsettling and distressing children or is just the children of parents more well off than you??

And no, I don't send my kids to private school.

Looking good, OP 🙌

Why not just get a better job? Or some sort of side hustle to make up the difference?

That's a bit nasty OP. At the end of the day it's the children that will suffer.

Potentially being uprooted from their schools, teachers and safety network.

Potentially disrupted due to bigger class sizes, overstretched resources and overworked teachers due to state schools bursting at the seams

Potentially overstretched budgets meaning less TSA's, less support for learning

It will affect them all, directly or inadvertently

And children in third world countries are worse off than that. Some also have debilitating diseases.

However, all of that is irrelevant and this is not a race to the bottom.

It's laughable that private school parents are accused of looking down on state school parents all the time. All I ever see on MN are private school parents and their kids being treated like dirt.

😂

TiredMumE and you're worried little Jemima can no longer attend Fluffy Bunny Montessori School. Wow.

What a hateful post.

Having a break from drowning kittens to gloat over upset kids, OP? Bravo.

The tax raised (if there is any) isn’t being allocated to solve the problems of poverty though. It’s going on a few extra maths teachers apparently, and some new nurseries. Taxing private school parents isn’t going to help those living in poverty. To make any real difference to their lives will take reduced spending elsewhere or much larger tax hikes affecting a greater proportion of taxpayers.