Does anyone else feel this way about the education system in the uk?

I don't understand how, in what I am assuming is an infant or primary school, you were aware that the teachers in the classrooms were "supply teachers". It's not like it's a maths teacher trying to teach French.

And that "satisfactory" rating is deeply weird. I am always looking at Ofsted results as part of my job and as PP have said satisfactory hasn't been used in donkeys years. It's Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, Inadequate.

There is no UK education system. Scotland is a country. Education here has always been separate from England.

the schools in my area are lovely. Even our “requires improvement” school is lovely.

We just viewed a secondary school and 600 kids volunteered to show parents and Yr6’s around. Everyone was excited, proud and well behaved.

like with everywhere though, you’ll get nice schools and you’ll get shit schools. Same as everything else in life.

YANBU sadly. We couldn’t afford private but took our kids out to home-ed them. The local state school was a feral jungle. It declined dramatically over two years or so, and all the good teachers left.

I don't understand how not sending your child to private school is taking the moral high ground?

If I could afford it, I would

It takes pressure off the state schools, I don't understand how sending your child to a state school "supports" the school?

And in answer to your query, no the schools aren't like that near me, not the ones I've viewed recently. My DD is the same age as yours and will be starting next September

Parenting isn't being academic.

Supportive parents are so much more important than the 'right' school.

I imagine OP might be looking at a schools rating before it was taken over as an academy or similar. It can still have the same name.

I was privately educated at secondary, I was the student of parents who scrimped and saved to send their dc private. The teaching / facilities was excellent but a lot of my peers were a bit stuck up, and had fancy holidays, branded clothes etc. One girl even gave a presentation on her holiday cruise ffs. FWIW, I did have some friends who were of a similar background to me so it wasnt all bad on the social front but not sure if I would send my dc private if I had a reasonable choice.

I had a really bad state primary experience (bullying & I was dyslexic but I didnt get the necessary support) which is why I went private for secondary.

So it’s not really concern about mixing with a privileged minority but that you’re worried that she won’t be as rich as her friends? There will be rich people at state school too by the way.

Well, I’d be finding the most recent report to read if that’s one of the schools you liked.

A ‘satisfactory’ ofsted inspection is NOT going to be the most recent report so anything you are reading on there will be completely out of date.

You're saying the school hasn't had an Ofsted inspection for over 10 years?

Weird thread. Soz OP, you're not being convincing.

Private primaries cost about £4-6k a term here. How can you could do on 30k?

And yet 4 of the schools are supposedly Outstanding. A odd thread.

Op, my advice would be to forget how the schools are funded. Look at all the possible schools in your area. Remember you are choosing a school for your child. Politics are irrelevant.

Some areas have brilliant state schools, some don't.

My ds went to a state primary. When it came to senior school, the one we were offered, even Ofsted said it wasn't safe. At that point I gave up on dogma and based my decision on the need to keep my child safe. My job is to get him to adulthood unmolested and in one piece and that is what I intend to do.

Good luck

That wasn't your original point though.
You were implying that you didn't want her mixing with privilege as if there is something wrong them whilst trying to pretend you aren't also in that bracket compared to the vast majority of people in the country. A strange inverted snobbery given your reaction to the reality of the state schools that the majority attend.

Where in the country are you?

I’m smelling a bit of a rat here. 5 local schools. 4 of them outstanding is highly unusual. The other being ‘satisfactory’ which isn’t a word used by Ofsted for many years.
Is this designed to be another VAT, poor private school parents thread?

That doesn't bear any resembalance to the state schools my dc went to. If they are all like that you must live in a horrible area. Can you move house?

It will depend where you live . Our schools here are great and many over subscribed. Private would be an utter waste of money.

Have you read the Ofsted reports as to why they got the grading? Spoken to friends?

Trust me, many parents who choose indy are in the same financial situation. She/you will be in the majority, not the minority

But your child can attend stuff like brownies, swimming etc that has a good mix of people.

I went to state infants (where I was very bored most of the time being told to read in the corner while the rest of the class did such and such. From there I went to a private prep school where I thrived.

Then my parents split up. And I won a full scholarship to attend 5 years of private secondary . But my dad who we lived with was a staunch labourite, anti private anything and refused to let me go to the private grammar instead sticking me in a local east London comp.

It was dreadful. 3 years behind academically ( i the work they were giving Id done when I was bloody 8) No manners from most of the other kids and the teachers let the kids get away with blue murder so no chance of learning.

Hence I spent most of my time piss balling about and totally lost interest. I never did actually forgive my dad for that and when he got older ( in his 70s) he said that he probably would've acted differently in the same situation with hindsight

Don't deprive your child of opportunities for some " champagne socialist" political view

Do you mean reception entry?

So you’ll privately educate all the way through?

I mean you feel strongly against private so it depends how much that matters to you

You realise that indy kids have live outside of school so don't just exist in the microcosm of that school? Lots of opportunities for mixing with wider social strata through extra curricular or just where you live