Page 3 | To think if you can no longer afford school fees...

ThisExistence · 13/06/2024 20:37

PonyPatter44 · 13/06/2024 20:33

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

Or move to an area with cheaper housing if renting or downsize if own to free up money for school fees ? Which is what gets suggested to people struggling financially in other ways on here frequently so if it’s good enough for them!

Namenamchange · 13/06/2024 20:38

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:31

Some children won't eat today. Some children in the UK are so poor they have no bed, no toys and no winter coat. And you're worried little Jemima can no longer attend Fluffy Bunny Montessori School. Wow.

And you think increasing the size of their classes is going to help? Having to share their teacher with more students will help the disadvantaged children?
there isn’t the infrastructure in to place the ‘just can afford’ school fees children.

like with everything else, the vulnerable children will miss out.

Blarneytalk · 13/06/2024 20:38

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:37

FWIW I'm sorry for those children and your sister. Will they def close?

Oh give over! Stop being so disingenuous!

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:38

Election hasn't happened yet.

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TinyYellow · 13/06/2024 20:38

It would be fine to bring it in for pupils who haven’t started at their schools yet. I would agree that if you can’t afford it, tough.

But disrupting children who are already settled in their educational settings so they can win votes from jealous people seems quite disgusting to me. Children don’t stop having vulnerabilities just because their parents or grandparents can afford school fees.

Blarneytalk · 13/06/2024 20:39

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:34

I'm not gloating. I just think you've no idea how lucky you are. Literally.

Who are you talking too?

MonsteraMama · 13/06/2024 20:39

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:31

Some children won't eat today. Some children in the UK are so poor they have no bed, no toys and no winter coat. And you're worried little Jemima can no longer attend Fluffy Bunny Montessori School. Wow.

So why are you going on a Disney cruise instead of feeding and clothing those children then eh?

Creamcheeseplease · 13/06/2024 20:40

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:29

It's not goading. It's a genuine give your head a wobble. Do you genuinely think all state schools resemble Grange Hill?

Mine did. My husband's did. In fact fucking worse. You ever been to Easterhouse or Castlemilk? Our current local secondary is a pile of shite too.

Our son is going to a private school. We can afford it regardless, thank fuck.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:40

They were missing out before. The poor are always with us. They'd miss out either way. It's a lose - lose.

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elastamum · 13/06/2024 20:40

If Labour really wanted to make a difference to children in poverty they could start by raising the 2 child cap on benefits. An extra maths teacher for every 4 schools won't really cut it.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:41

Sorry start by raising. I don't follow. Do you mean ending the 2 child policy?

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NalafromtheLionKing · 13/06/2024 20:42

MonsteraMama · 13/06/2024 20:39

So why are you going on a Disney cruise instead of feeding and clothing those children then eh?

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😁 you’ve got to love these champagne socialists.

If this issue affected me, I would definitely move to the leafy grammar school by buying in the right catchment.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:43

Champagne... Actually, no-alcohol.

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Bunnyasmyname · 13/06/2024 20:43

emmetgirl : Yep.Tough shit.

What a load of downright nasty witches with no foresight.
So when all these parents move their kids to schools already struggling at capacity and v limited funds, you'll be clapping then?
Hurray we have another load of kids being let down, yay!

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:44

If I can afford Disney Wish/ Dream - can more than afford food...

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Coldsore · 13/06/2024 20:44

TruthorDie · 13/06/2024 19:56

It’s a shame there isn’t 🤷‍♀️

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*aren’t

Should have gone to private school! 🤣

BotDranning · 13/06/2024 20:45

What a nasty nasty post.

I have friends who have decided to only have one child and worked their arses off to pay to send their child to private school. He is in year 12 and will have to leave due to this tax. They made a sensible decisions.

Of course they could have sat on their backsides, produced loads of kids they can't afford and claim benefits.....
Which is better 🤔?

Snuffkincamehome · 13/06/2024 20:45

TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:34

I'm not gloating. I just think you've no idea how lucky you are. Literally.

I'm not lucky. I worked my arse off to afford private school fees.

I want the best for my child, and our local comprehensive isn't it. Sorry you think that makes my child a "Jemima" going to "fluffy bunny Montessori" 🤷🏻‍♀️

What they actually are is a child whose mother was raised by poor working class parents and went to shit schools herself and has worked hard for a career that can pay for private schooling. I don't want my child to suffer the crap I did at secondary. It was awful.

edwinbear · 13/06/2024 20:46

You are gloating OP. Does it make you feel good to relish in the misery that’s coming to all those children whose lives are going to be turned upside down? How utterly abhorrent.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:46

What happened?

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Namedispute · 13/06/2024 20:46

Teentaxidriver · 13/06/2024 20:05

I think you’ll be laughing a bit less when VAT is added to university fees.

Always find the VAT thread entertaining and then someone has to be so dumb and uneducated that I get angry.

They won’t add VAT to university fees. HTH.

MilliMollieMandi · 13/06/2024 20:46

Can I ask why we are determined to keep arguing or supporting Conservative Party HQ bots? - because that is where the majority of these threads start out.

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TiredMumE · 13/06/2024 20:46

I'm not relishing. No schadenfreude.

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Summerhillsquare · 13/06/2024 20:47

Teentaxidriver · 13/06/2024 20:04

Yes, cry me a river. We’ll be saving £30k a year and the money will go on foreign holidays, saving for university costs/ future housing for the DC, tutoring, cultural enrichment, riding lessons, tennis lessons, music lessons, etc. DS moving to a leafy state grammar from his leafy prep. Best bit - you lot fund it.

Not quite the burn you think it is, if you've already been daft enough to pay for it!

Summerhillsquare · 13/06/2024 20:48

They could consider giving up Netflix and takeaway coffees?