Royal Children - Time for State school?

That's not how education funding is determined. Exactly how do you believe funding decisions for schools are made?

Do you think Prince Philip was vetoing more funding for state schools for years? Or the Queen was pulling the strings behind the scenes?

You do know even in Soviet Russian the elite had very different schools, funded differently with different schemes of education and opportunities to the general mass of the population. If you close every single private school in the country it wouldn't improve state schools it would just mean those parents who know how to play the system would ensure their children went to the best schools.

Yes I think so and while you are at it lets just do away with the whole monarchy, its way past its sell by date. Also give these poor kids a normal life out of the public eye, much kinder and fairer too them. The whole royal family is a total circus in this day and age, I am embarrassed by the lot of them.

Well said.

and very dismayed the people arguing against the royal family don’t even know what a democracy is, or that we live in one, or the difference between a democracy and a republic.

The UK already IS a democracy FFS.

Did you sleep through the recent General Election?

Look, the arguments against having monarchy at all are separate to the question of whether the current royal children should be sent to state or private. They are independently wealthy but more relevantly, high profile children. They are a target, among many other considerations. While the system exists as it does, it is ridiculous to suggest they attend anything other than a small selection of private schools. I want the best for every child and that includes them. I'm also a realist so private school it is.

Also, edit to add mine to the voices reminding some daft pps - We ARE A Democracy 🤦‍♀️

Absolutely not. And we are a democracy.

I don't agree with the idea of royalty or with private schools, but they're rich people. We're not paying the fees, they are and if other wealthy people are allowed spend on education then they should be allowed as well.

I think that it is better if they don’t send their children to board at a very young age. Edward and Sophie didn’t.

It is a democracy, I think the poster means republic.

I don’t think anyone should be agreeing with a word they don’t know the meaning of.

I’m sure the security bill would just skyrocket instead if they were in state school.

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Do you mean republic?

It’s not on taxpayers money. It’s paid from their own income, which depends on which kids it is, where that income comes from/

I think some folks actually think we fund everything, from their knickers to their education and they are secretly skint.😂

Where on earth isn your evidence of that ??!

But it costs lots at private school too surely?

Hundreds of thousands at a very conservative estimate. It won’t be Bob and a few of his mates doing the background checks, checking the sewers, securing nearby buildings etc.

They don't. You do realise the Royal Family had personal wealth too don't you?

You can still see the reinforced bullet proof windows they had to install in Prince Williams house in st andrews as you drive past. I think it was up for sale recently

No. Working parents who send their children to private schools and claim they aren’t rich have been given grief. It makes me chuckle to see them complaining that if VAT is brought in, only the really really rich will be able to afford to send their children to private school - which is exactly what happens now!

The difference between a good state school and bad one isn't money, they have equal funding and schools in deprived areas actually receive more funding than ones in good areas per pupil. The difference between a good and bad school is governance and management.

The local authority and parents select the governors and effectively the schools leadership. If the school is under performing it's because the councillors, education department and parents let it happen.

Perhaps the solution is educating parents to be better governors and more transparency about school performance beyond exam results which are effectively lagging indicators of performance.

Though if you have lots of shit parents who don't care about their kids and let them misbehave then the school probably doesn't stand a chance.

Better funding probably wouldn't hurt though but it's not obvious where it comes from! Vat on private schools looks like it might actually cost money rather than save it.

Christ no and we don’t pay for their education their parents do. You do understand they are independently wealthy. Not living hand to mouth waiting for hand outs right?

what an odd thread.

Would they get to select from the best performing state schools in the country like Kier Starmer?

Is it on taxpayers money? How do you know? The Royal Family is very wealthy thanks to the gig they have, but I’m not convinced that we pay for the kids’ schooling. How would the government “push” for this? Why would they? It would be as divisive as Brexit. There are better things for the government to concentrate on

I agree. Abolish the monarchy and you get rid of the security issue. They’ll have no more value than Joe Bloggs in the street.

In Scandinavia too. A friend of mine was in the same class as our Crown Prince. He was treated just like everyone else, and it probably did him good as he seems to have grown up to a decent normal person.