As a comprehensive educated parent of 2 DC who have just left a SM rural coastal comprehensive in the east of the region with the worst educationally outcomes in England, you can keep our stupid overpriced private schools.
I think as one non hypocrite who makes use of the sort of school most on here run away from, that state schools are miracle workers.
Of 360 students in DC1 year, 98% ended up in work/FE/university.
With less then £5000 spent on year, so £25000 over 5 years, imagine telling our superior (haha) privates to do that, when most charge more per term.
The school has nation champions, kids doing RSC plays with RSC directors, kids going to ballet scholarship's post 16, opera singers too.
I wonder if people like me, state educated plebs, who use state comprehensives and all our kids, should withdraw our labour from 4-6 weeks and leave running the country to the likes of Dapplegrey and medtrinia and fibbke and their kids?
I am sure the police, NHS, fire service, coastguard, lifeboats, railways, buses, taxis, power stations, postal service, schools, courts, councils, refuse collections, social services, home care, care homes, funeral directors, airports and docks, border service and prison service and lets not forget the armed forces, would cope so sodding well relying on the 650000 private educated superstars.
Finally you can keep our ghettos, I certainly don't want the arrogant private school parents and kids anywhere near our lovely state educated kids. especially if they act like the ones we meet a rugby, who never turn up for training, but expect to play, only hang in their little groups, look down on any one else. Or the private school who won't allow our kids to use their changing rooms, so kids have to travel in sports kid to play them. Then once you manage to beat them, refuse to play the school again, because our kids are rude and brutal. But your the team who had players sent off.
I think it bloody amazing what state schools manage, imagine if my Dc got 25000K spent on them, I bet Oxbridge would not be telling state schools to do more, no actually you have had 25 years to get kids from our local 5 schools and have failed in 24 years, it is your outreach which is crap.
Keep your ghetto's it's you who are losing out, as apart from A* students, all research shows comprehensive kids out perform their privately educated cohorts with same grades, when at university.
So actually it is the UK, who is losing out, because your throwing 93% of your talent down the drain.
After the privately educated lead wet dream of Brexit, we will need every one of those 93% to step and save the UK.