@Mymymydelilahwhywhywhydeliah What sanctions do you think state schools can put in place for pupils that zoombomb lessons? That capture their classmates or teachers' images and alter them then post them online? That expose themselves? That disrupt the live classes?
How do you think state school teachers can manage to organise 30+ pupils instead of 16 or 18 without them all butting in, muting each other, spamming the chat channel constantly?
How can there be live lessons for pupils that share one device between four, five, or more children?
In my family we have enough computers for all of us to work simultaneously, fibre broadband, a separate room for each person to work undisturbed.
My school has 30% pupil premium pupils, which is well below the authority average. We have a significantly large group of pupils with no broadband, no computer/laptop at home. A significant chunk are doing school work on smartphones only, as a parent needs the only laptop to work from home. How bad do you think that is for their eyes and hands?
My school cannot afford laptops for all staff, it's too costly, and many of us have declined to have ours renewed as we have machines at home we can use. Obviously no-one realised we would all be mostly working from home, so some are deeply regretting that now their children need a machine at home too.
Every child in DS' class has access to a device and broadband, and there are only 16 to co-ordinate for the teacher. Whilst the teachers are in school (for the 25% of pupils that are key workers' children and are still in every day) they are also using pre-recorded lessons that they somehow have found time to prepare, but this is only possible because they are all subject specialists in primary, so have higher staffing levels than in state schools.
It comes down to money, pure and simple, that is how fee-paying schools can do it.