Jeremy Corbyn and DD

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I am so worried about what will happen if Labour get in and implement their stated policy on closing down independent schools. It is literally keeping me awake at night worrying about what might happen to DD.

DD is in her 30s, just split from her OH and works as a teacher and housemistress at an independent school. If it is taken over by the state, she stands to lose her home (she lives in the boarding house) and possibly her job. Her school has tiny classes and a state school would need far fewer teachers for the bigger class sizes.

Of course she could come and live in our spare room if necessary, but hardly desirable for someone who has lived away from home for years.

Please tell me I am silly to be so worried!

What we will get is zero improvement in standards with constant Pravda-esque dictats informing us that it’s the best in the world, while pass levels plummet and class numbers increase.

I think you'll find that's exactly what we have now. We no longer have "every child matters" we have "every child that might pass SATs matters" the rest don't matter at all.

@CendrillonSings You misunderstood me. I was replying to a post which inferred the policy was borne from "right wing newspapers"... I was merely pointing out it wasn't spin as it was announced at their conference. Of course any sensible person can see what an unworkable policy it is!

Far more children in need are suffering as a result of the Tories and their dreadful policies. But people don't seem to mind that children are suffering and keep voting them in.

This ^

There's a teacher recruitment and retention crisis so I imagine she will very easily get another job.

We have 7 private schools in a 5 mile radius and 1 state comp. The state comp is really good and in fact got more to oxbridge than 6 of the private schools added together. So your argument doesn't make sense. I'm sure we are not unique.

So you're saying that people are paying through the nose for a worse education? Either you are lying or people round your way are really stupid.

I have never voted labour before (conservative and Lib Dem in the past) but I will be voting Labour this time round. I'd vote for a melon on a stick over Boris and the current lot.

YABU OP, your daughter is a grown up, she has options, she'll be fine.

Where I live the catchment area around the good and outstanding schools is so small

So the choice isn’t for many

So you're saying that people are paying through the nose for a worse education?

I am not lying! Not everyone goes to private school for Oxbridge. I imagine some parents at the private schools were peeved but I'm not sure if they are stupid or not. Not me, dd is at the 7th

The Tories have completely destroyed the education system. My son is 10 and has only known falling budgets, fewer resources, a demotivated teaching force and crumbling buildings.

OP. Your daughter will find a job and she’ll be fine. Unlike those millions of kids who’ve grown up in poverty thanks to the banks and the Tories.

There's a teacher recruitment and retention crisis so I imagine she will very easily get another job.

This-you need to get a serious hold on your anxiety.

I am far FAR more worried about how the Tories will continue to destroy education than what happens if Labour get in.

This OP has to be a joke.

Why not go and do some reading into this policy? Which isn’t actually in their manifesto - it could be dropped.

The OP is obviously made up to provoke a debate.

Anyway I'm a bit confused. How does abolishing private schools improve state schools?

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It’ll never happen. For one - no sane person will vote labour in with JC at the helm. Secondly - you can’t just abolish private schools - it just can’t happen.

Some of these replies are very goady.
JC is goady for suggesting something he doesn't believe will ever happen just to piss off the right.
If the OP is being goady, the giady fuckers replying should know better.

It's all shit.

Thousands are in poverty right now, the hangover of (the so called “ended”) austerity drives people to suicide.
And this is what you’re worried about? Really? Fucking hell. State schools in most areas are crying out for teachers I’m sure even if her school evaporated tomorrow she’d be just fine!!!

It is my human right to spend my money that I earn on whatever I want and that includes my DC’s education. How interventionist should it be? Banning private tutors as some can afford it cos others can’t? Of course all children should have good education but I am sorry I don’t believe that’s what this is about as if it was about a meritocracy the left would like grammar schools as that it is the ultimate in a child getting an education based on their own ability. In reality JC and his crew are just reducing the ways in which people can spend their own money.

It is my human right to spend my money that I earn on whatever I want

That was my defence when I was caught buying a kilo of cocaine but for some reason the fascist government didn't accept it.

It'll never happen. Please find something else to worry about, op.

“the left would like grammar schools as that it is the ultimate in a child getting an education based on their own ability.”
It absolutely is not. And probably not. Unless you think that poor children are inherently less intelligent than better off ones.....

How is passing an exam based on ability to get into schools anything to do with money? Surely it’s to do with ability. Seriously. This thinking has always confused me.

Drugs are illegal tho. Are you genuinely aligning spending money on private education to drugs?

@Cushionsarecomfie.
Here’s a thing. I live near a small town in a wholly selective area. There are two schools, a grammar and a high school a mile apart. In terms of catchment any child could go to either school. The grammar has

oh god, your poor daughter. Imagine if she had to work with working class children! The horror! Im not surprised youre crying yourself to sleep.

That’s because there are 163 grammar schools in the whole country and they provide decent education so there is an associated premium. If it was a more widespread policy then there would be much less of a premium and I am sure those figures will change. It would have to.