Royal Children - Time for State school?

The UK is a democracy. I think you mean a republic.

They currently are, if you check out the current cabinet for example and the PM was state educated. However I take your point that in the past, many politicians have been privately educated.

Hahaha that’s so true as well 👏

Well it doesn’t belong to us, no matter how much you want it to, and they can send their kids any where they please. Their money, their kids, their choice,

What a silly thread! I think OP is trying to wind people up and it’s working!

That's the problem

At the moment it's not good enough for my cat

@llamajohn the MOD (aka the taxpayer) pay up to 90% of school fees, most places provide a bursary for the remaining 10% that we looked at. You don’t have to be posted overseas, just reasonably expect that you might be posted more than 50 miles away in the next four years, as postings are 2/3 years it’s reasonably likely for most people.

No, I mean that on the whole they aren’t state school educated.

The op isn’t English and you can see it’s not the majority just a tiny minority and I suspect that’s due to resentment and envy over the privalge.

Yes.

And where did the Duchy of Cornwall money come from? They didn’t earn it. There’s a strong argument that every single thing they own belongs to us really.

And totally agree with the PP who said that a state boarding school would be totally doable.

I may be wrong but I dont think l the taxes pay for royal children's school fees. It's their own investments and income I believe

I don't understand why the english are so disrespectful to the royal family. Of course not

The whole history of how the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster came to own so much land and solely benefit the Monarch and the heir is not a democratic history.

There’s “good enough” which I believe state schools should be, and then there’s “the very best” which is impractical for most state schools but if people can pay to attend or have the privilege to attend, then of course they would.

Pretty sure the future king is going to attend “the very best”. As he should.

I'm sure the education at a good state school would absolutely be good enough for them. But I'm guessing you've never been past the average state school have you? We have 3 excellent state high schools in our area. 2 are rated Outstanding and appear on the Sunday Times Best Schools list. From an education perspective, I am confident that the royal children would do just fine at either of those schools.

But the practicalities!? Oh my god.

Both schools are MASSIVE (6-8 form entry depending on year group) and while well funded and looked after, the additional costs to create the right kind of security - doors, windows, fences, walls etc would be massive. Both schools are in residential areas where traffic and parking is already a nightmare - an additional massive amount of traffic due to rubber neckers, additional security, media etc would be horrendous. I imagine that their security worry also about things like line of sight - so what houses are nearby/gardens are close to the school etc - in densely urban areas, that's going to be a lot more complicated to manage (I don't think it's a coincidence that as the children have started getting older they've moved to a more rural setting for their private school). The schools are both hugely diverse which I would say is actually a good thing, even more so for the royal children. BUT... it does make being able to figure out how to monitor risks or spot those children/families who might target them a lot harder.

Even extra curricular - both schools have strong extracurricular offerings. But NOTHING like what's on offer at a private school. This is more of an issue becuase again, if I was the W&C, I would want as much of what my children do to happen at school where security is already in place and to avoid too much driving around, background checking on groups etc etc etc.

I think a village school and then state boarding are eminently doable.

No the MOD provide an allowance /% of fees of some service children, of their posted overseas bet. . They don't pay every military child's total fees.

It's around 4,000 funded places.

How about we get rid of the Monarchy and don't replace it with some bloke in a suit?

We already have an elected Prime Minister who already attends most of the important engagements of the HoS anyway.

The nonsense of the Honours system, the "tradition", and the utter bullshit of the "tourism" argument are some of the reasons why we should begin living in the 21st century and stop pretending its still 15'something.

French murdered their royals, and yet the French tourist industry is just fine. How many Americans/Chinese/Japanese visit Buckingham Palace and actually see a Royal?

Do you want to sort out the security? The children, all the other pupils and staff need to be quite literally bombproof. No way could you keep them all safe.

Why should we get rid of our monarchy? And replace with some grey bloke in a suit who will..live in a heavily fortified mansion with armed bodyguards and have their children educated privately (and also have bodyguards) why should be give up our traditions, the colour, the pomp, the parades? the excitement of schoolchildren waiting for the King/Queen to visit. The high profile visits to charities, the Knighthood ceremonies? The pride of the families of those who are knighted? The prestige of being honoured by the monarch?
Just leave is and our traditions alone. There is enough crap going on already? Don't make it more depressing
(And I'm not a raging monarchist btw)

@llamajohn yes they are, the government fund about 8,000 boarding school places for service children.

Perhaps they don't. But probably for the same sort of reasons you don't want your kids mixing with the county line kids, the kids who are taking knives around with them, the kids who are smoking and driving mopeds round at 4am etc etc

No shit they attend schools now.

You seemingly don’t understand the cost of security details even slightly.

How ridiculous.