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How oversubscribed are your local schools? Will they be able to take on students who are currently privately-educated?

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Macaroons · 13/06/2024 18:17

One of the headline Starmer kept talking about is charging VAT for private schools. This would make private school fees unaffordable for many who are not mega-rich, pushing more students back to the state education system. Would the state schools be able to take in the extra students? Many schools are already over-subscribed, are there enough schools, classrooms and teachers to take in the extra students? My fear is that the extra VAT they get is not going to be enough to provide education for more students under the state system, as well as the additional 6500 teachers they claim they can provide.

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Laserwho · 13/06/2024 18:28

There won't be any at my child's highly sort after state school. If people apply they will be given a place at a school that does have places in the same town. It doesn't have a great reputation but that's what happens when you apply mid year

Soontobe60 · 13/06/2024 18:23

I know a few schools that always have room, they used to call them “sink school”, now they just call them “Inadequate “

Philandbill · 13/06/2024 18:23

Another scaremongering thread. In simple terms VAT stands for Value Added Tax. Parents send their DC to private schools because they believe it adds value. If not they wouldn't be sending them. So if the schools add value then they should be taxed as such. It's not rocket science...

belladonna22 · 13/06/2024 18:18

The Tory bots are out in force with their messaging today.

LemonCitron · 13/06/2024 18:17

It's lucky there haven't been any threads on this already.

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