To have no sympathy for a family that overstretch themselves to pay school fees?

[mrsruffallo]

Why not just go to state school?
here

This is their catchment comp
www.bohunt.hants.sch.uk/
they are IDIOTS to have lost their home to avoid it.

www.bohunt.hants.sch.uk/
www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/school.pl?urn=136643

Does anyone find themselves feeling a bit sorry for Keith?

before I go and read it, please tell me she solved all their financial problems by selling cupcakes? It wouldn't seem right if she didn't. I love a good "Cupcake Redemption" story (like Shawshack Redemption, with pinnys).

She doesn't live in the normal world.

She thinks it's a fate worth that death for a child to be at a state school! Plus you can EASILY rent a house for less than 2k a month

oh Abs, THAT's what the story is missing, a cupcake redemption!!
it won't be long coming though, she's exactly the sort. Soon they'll be back in the family home: 'the house that cupcakes built' or something...

And they only have four bedromms when they really need five. Sob!!

Bloody hell that's a nice school. I assume they both went to private schools themselves if that state school simply wouldn't do?

Didn't teach them much, did it? I bet they wouldn't be so scathing about families being in rented accommodation and private landlords if they were making a profit.

Right, skimmed it and it has made me unfeasibly angry

1. NO CUPCAKES. What's this woman on about?
2. FFS. They have to rent. Big Farking Deal. So do many other people, and renting doesn't make you a societal leper, it doesn't mean you eat babies for breakfast, it just means you ... rent.
3. They had it coming for being complete and utter, SMUG morons.

ARGH

I'll now have to eat a cupcake to calm myself.

Why didn't they just squat.

slumming it at the local comp
www.bohunt.hants.sch.uk/Greenland.aspx

"For a family with four children (Flo, 13, Annie, 11, Monty, nine, and two-year-old Dolly) living in the South-East it?s a minimum £450,000 for a four-bedroom house (we need five but I don?t want to sound fussy). "

Poor dear, having to squash 6 individuals into a four bedroom house. The Horror. (but at least she's not fussy)

ARGH.

"So when Dolly draws on the wall with crayon or Monty spills juice on the carpet I know at the end of our lease these normal spots of family life will be totted up as wear and tear and added to our bill"

So when you own your own home the painting and carpet-cleaning fairies do it for you for free, do they?

oh but their girls have such lovely manners... I've managed to teach those at home; my girls are at the local 'good' comp - well in fact sec mod as we are in Kent and therefore grammar system.

they were stupid stupid stupid to sell their house - should have dug in, transferred the children to the state system and kept the roof and therefore their investment over their heads.

poor poor Keith!

Silly people who class a financial liability as an asset and cry when it bites them on the bum. Living the dream, without the means to support it, is self-sabotage founded on delusion, so now they can dry their eyes and suck it up with not a jot of sympathy from me.

No, she went private but Poor Keith didn't. Fat lot of good it did her in terms of numeracy and common sense. Poor Keith's family don't approve of her sending them to private schools, according to one of her previous articles.

No sympathy for the parents. Big sympathy for the kids.
Do you think one of them will end up having their homeless parents to live with them in old age?

Haha Abs - I LOVE Cupcake Redemption.

Do you remember about a year ago there was another wanky article in the DM about some dozy SAHM wringing her hands when her husband lost her job, she baked 5000 cupcakes in an afternoon or something and sold them at a fayre, thereby SAVING their family from poverty or something.

The thread was great, a whole load of MNers slagging off her clothes and cupcake website, and then some bright spark worked out that it was logistically impossible to bake the amopunt of cupcakes she stated in one afternoon.

Great idea Tunip. Then she can write an article about the indignity of having to live with her adult child. How much does the DM pay for this sort of article, does anyone know?

I haven't read the whole article so am hoping the 'poor Keith' comments are sarcasm based on some quote in there.... Maybe they will both grow a spine while they face some home-truths. Feel sorry for the kids having their faces splashed over the internet with that article - hope the fee was worth it!

Very difficult to have sympathy for the parents. Bloody hell that rented house looks nice. No - they need a reality check and to enter the real world of most people. 2000 pounds a month rent is a huge and unaffordable amount for most people- they need to 'cut their cloth' etc..

I have no sympathy for them, did they think thier property would just keep going up and up in value? ofcourse that doesnt happen! they were ilving above thier means full stop, the minute they first remortaged one of them should of just said stop! My heart bleeds ... not!

Oh, that's cheered me up no end.

Silly billies.

What we need in this country is decent rent control, legislation for long tenancies (in private as well as council housing) and an understanding from LL that it is YOUR HOME while you live in it. I'm very lucky, wonderful LL and indefinite lease, although not allowed pets other than the fish called Dave. Let's get out of this weird obsession with owning houses. It's mad. And silly.

I have no sympathy for them over stretching themselves.

As for needing five bedrooms...no, they don't. Five would be nice but not essential.

well on the face of it I do have a bit of sympathy for Poor Keith. Just living with having your domestic detritus exposed for financial gain (or "a writer's pittance" as she calls it) must be difficult enough. but she does sound very very precious and high maintenance. He prob does need to grow a backbone but he is probably worn down by years of meeting her demands....