To think private schools should be banned?

[BethanyBoobs]

Why should someone have a better education just because their parents have money? Why should someone have a better chance of getting into university because their parents paid for their education? It makes me feel uncomfortable that people can buy their kids an upper hand when it comes to education.

I feel the same way about private health care too.

IMO private schools should be banned. Everyone should have the same chances when it comes to their education.

The wealthiest and not so wealthiest have always had a private education.
My parents couldn't afford it, so we didn't go. The kids going to private school had no bearing on our nearest local school, we went to.
Money can buy you anything you like, do you think if private schools were banned those kids would go to the local schools.
Of course not, the parents would H.ed and pay for tutors.
Why is everybody so entitled these days, I can't have it, so neither should you.
What an awful way to bring your children up.

The wealthiest people may be limiting other people's choices by perpetuating a system where money can buy education.

Except they're not.

Tznett I agree entirely.

So post school lottery here's a dilemma for you all. We can just about manage school fees and our current two (dc3 in womb) are enrolled at a local private school, dd1 has been doing pre school there.

We then get offered a place at an amazing infant school nearby. We are out if catchment.

Surely if I take the place instead of using private school we are denying another child who will end up in one of the considerably less amazing schools around here. So surely private school existing is a good thing in that case?

However, we will probably take the place.

For me it is not about I can't afford so you shouldn't get it.

I can afford it, as it happens.

However I also happen to believe that private education should be truly private and the buyer bear the full cost of it, not to be propped up by the taxpayer, as is the case in the UK, i.e. private teacher pensions, "charitable" status.

That is why when the time came, I paid for private tuition out of my taxed income for DD. I did not go bleating to taxpayers to shore up my decisions.

Think of it like running a car. Your decision, your cost.

Pommedeterre, you wouldn't be denying another child anything. Your child has as much right to a decent school place as any other child.

You wouldn't have been offered the place if there was another child with higher priority than yours.

Ok so we got 3rd choice and we don't want to send ds there so he's going private. Our neighbours got our first choice,because they live about 10 m closer- how is that fair?
Why should our ds go to the crap school down the road? No thanks he gets one chance at school.
For all of you advocating the Abolition of private school perhaps you should campaign for fairer admissions to state schools- perhaps a lottery system, whereby parents can't but places by stealth, or pray their way in!

racmun - I totally do not get admissions. I cannot fathom why we have been offered a place at the state school we have. We were a late application and are way out of catchment.