School Fees, thoughts please

[Loubilou09]

My daughter is at private school in lower 6th and like everyone else is being taught at home. Realistically there will probably be no school now until the end of the summer and school has offered us a 10% discount on the summer term bill. Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this is reasonable, what are your schools offering, if anything? I split the costs with family and family currently have a very different view to me, I am happy to pay with the 10% reduction and instead of going over the same arguments again and again I would like to know what other peoople's thoughts are. Thanks in advance :)

We are being offered the same level of discount. We are paying. We want a school to go back to that is not on a shoestring or having to cut back.

If you want the school to be there in September you have to pay.

Presumably your child is being educated remotely during this period as well?

10% is on the low side. But if she's getting good support/teaching online I would object. At this crucial stage you wouldn't be wanting to move her or lose the place for non payment.

Depends on how much online teaching and support there will be during the period of closure (duration still unknown)

Y12 (and Y10) may well be the group which is most able to work this way, and who are likely to get extensive additional input during the following school year in the run up to exams)

If you think your individual school is not providing this, then perhaps a greater discount might be something to lobby for. But the greater concern will be establishing how they are going to teach the rest of the syllabus in time for the public exams, including during the times pupils are off-site. If those are lacking, you have a whole different scale of problem