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Only a private school is good enough for my darling baby girl

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Dellspoem · 20/04/2025 22:06

I can’t afford private school, I never thought I would think like this, but here I am fantasising about giving up my career in academia for a teaching gig at Jags or similar so that my precious baby can have the best.

I think it might be my area (Brixton) but the local schools have no greenery, are overcrowded and hectic, and when I’ve visited I’ve just not had a great feeling about them. The area itself is under a flight path, it’s so polluted and urgh I wish I lived in a giant house in a leafy suburb, sent my darling children to independent school and got whisked away to the maldives during half term.

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AusBoundDD · 20/04/2025 22:21

Hankunamatata · 20/04/2025 22:10

Find an academic gig in a cheaper area of country?

NI still have the 11 plus with grammar school system

Shush.. our grammars are competitive and oversubscribed enough as it is!!

Dellspoem · 20/04/2025 22:20

AprilBunny · 20/04/2025 22:08

You need to marry a banker.

Possibility if DH is up for it

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AprilBunny · 20/04/2025 22:18

Dellspoem · 20/04/2025 22:17

Exactly I want to be whisked away! And if possible I want to sit in first while the nanny sits in economy with the kids.

The only way to travel darling.

Dellspoem · 20/04/2025 22:17

AprilBunny · 20/04/2025 22:11

No because then you’d be whisking yourself away to the Maldives and the OP wants to whisked away.

Exactly I want to be whisked away! And if possible I want to sit in first while the nanny sits in economy with the kids.

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Dellspoem · 20/04/2025 22:15

ThatNimblePeer · 20/04/2025 22:13

I’m afraid it doesn’t sound like teaching at Jags is the solution (unless your point is that they offer free schooling to the kids of people who teach there?)

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/dulwich/teachers-at-24000-a-year-dulwich-private-school-strike-over-low-pay-awards-and-pensions/

oh no it’s the fee remuneration

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tillyandmilly · 20/04/2025 22:13

Beg borrow that's what my sister did for her son - no car no holidays house falling apart ! But best decision she has ever made she says !

Calliopespa · 20/04/2025 22:12

Move house/area?

AprilBunny · 20/04/2025 22:11

Redpeach · 20/04/2025 22:09

Or be a banker

No because then you’d be whisking yourself away to the Maldives and the OP wants to whisked away.

cryinglaughing · 20/04/2025 22:11

It isn't the be all.
There are plenty of people very successfully in life who have managed that without a private education.

vodkaredbullgirl · 20/04/2025 22:10

Yeah ok

PeriPeriMam · 20/04/2025 22:10

Jags do proper full scholarships darling, you'll just have to get your baby a tutor immediately and coach her up for 10 years, get her to learn 3 instruments, and join a tennis club....voila

Hankunamatata · 20/04/2025 22:10

Find an academic gig in a cheaper area of country?

NI still have the 11 plus with grammar school system

90swithcigarettesandalcohol · 20/04/2025 22:09

Get a subscription to Omaze HTH

Redpeach · 20/04/2025 22:09

AprilBunny · 20/04/2025 22:08

You need to marry a banker.

Or be a banker

AprilBunny · 20/04/2025 22:08

You need to marry a banker.

BoIIocks · 20/04/2025 22:07

Where oh where did you go so wrong in life?