to think that independent schools should publish the earnings of their alumni?

[justalotofwandering]

I've been wondering about this for a while. I know that in reality it would be impossible.......but.....I know very few privately educated adults who can afford to send their children privately. I'm also conscious that many parents send their DC for reasons other than wanting to ensure that their DC earn 6 figures when they grow up. Its all very well private schools publishing leaver university destinations, but if you go to oxbridge and then do a second degree that pays £25k/year you aren't going to be sending your own children to your old school. For the purposes of not drip feeding our DC are at private schools, and got moved from the state system because they were deeply unhappy. Im not convinced they'll end up with any better exam results but at least they'll have happy memories. But would I send them to a private school where the average alumni salary by mid 40's was £25k? Probably not.

Numbers are so small in some cases that you could identify individuals, so contrary to data protection possibly.

But that's to do with your choice of 2nd degree post Oxbridge. Read your own post back.

What does that prove? I work with some fairly mediocre, not very bright privately educated people who earn a lot of money through family connections or social
Connections and would have been in that position anyway. I don’t think you understand the motivations of most of the parents sending their kids to posh schools.

"But would I send them to a private school where the average alumni salary by mid 40's was £25k? Probably not."

This is bizarre. If I were thinking about suitable schools for my children I honestly think this would be the furthest thing from my mind!

really? If every school published average earnings you'd be happy sending your child to a school where by mid 40s £25k is their lot? What about if it was £15k, in central London? Or if there was a school down the road, which had an average alumni income at 40 of £50k. And in terms of facilities, exam results and pastoral care they were all pretty much the same? you wouldn't consider you childs potential earning capacity?

this is madness

how would you get them to obtain the figures?!

and why on earth would you want this kind of "data"?!

If mine ever did, I'd bring the average down somewhat!

Don't they do this in a different way though, for example, saying how many get good exam results, and go to Oxford and Cambridge? I bet LinkedIn could give some answers too.

OP I think you’re being given a hard time here. Yes of course one of the reasons why you’d send your child to private school is to give them a higher chance of a well paid career. Everyone knows that the best paid careers are dominated by private school educated people.

Maybe if you’re so independently wealthy, it doesn’t matter if your kid decides to be a nursery nurse because you won’t miss the £250k it cost to educate them but if that £250k could’ve paid off your mortgage, gave you early retirement etc you would see it as an investment that you’re hoping will pay off. You’re hoping you’ve given your kid the best possible chance to secure the financial future for themselves and their descendants. They don’t need to be mega rich, just have choices and be comfortable.

My friends dad was very disappointed that not one of the three children he’d put through private school ended up earning good money. One became a SAHM straight out of uni then a single mum, and two followed their passions which led to no money. He could’ve used that money to invest or put away for grand kids instead.

My dc go to private school and it’s not really about how much money they will make as we hope to have enough so that they can do what they enjoy for a living because what we will have achieved is always their back income. I chose private because they teach them to be caring and confidence, thoughtful, expressive and maturer. They take their education seriously and dress appropriately, it’s also single gender. So no- I don’t need to know earnings. I’m aware you can achieve good grades in state school, and go on to make a lot of money.

also OP there are so many factors in earning capacity

another way of looking at it might be that a child coming from a well off family went to private school ....then worked in the arts because they had a well off family to pay the bills.

statistics are a bit useless in other ways. Is there a chance your DC will earn more if they go to private school? Maybe, maybe not. Did you really want to look at statistics to come up with that answer?!

My DC go to private school because the kids in the local state schools where I live stab each other to death (SE London). No brainier really.

We’ve had a few local kids skip merrily over to Syria and Iraq to join Daesh. The worst I had to deal with when I was at school were kids drinking Thunderbird and the very odd pregnancy. Not even drugs back in my day!