to get hacked off at journalists moaning about how oh so hard it is to afford school fees

[emkana]

like in the Daily Telegraph for example today

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AFH51SI3AUOK5QFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/education/ 2008/01/30/faclass130.xml&page=2

FFS - the Coping Classes. I understand something quie different by 'coping'.

now promise this won't turn into another thread about the German school system okay?

Get this: "Sending your child to the local primary and sink comprehensive is a risky strategy, however. He might well end up on a fast-track to Oxbridge, thanks to his outstandingly humble state education. Then again, he might equally emerge barely literate. That's the one of the many prices the Coping Classes have to pay."

Oh yes, these... gulp... state schools, don't you know. They are satch awful places.

FFS, get a life.

Hmm, well, at least the family themselves weren't moaning.
Interesting choice of subjects though, considering those kids aren't in a boarding school because comps are so bad but because it's closer to a good swimming pool... hardly helps make the point does it? lol

Arf at your pun

I actually thought it was meant tongue in cheek (coping classes) - what a load of shite.

god i wish they would ban the use of 'sink' and 'bog'. i heard all the russians were leaving the uk anyway.

lol at 'coping classes'

coping arses more like

there was an article on Tuesday along the lines of "can't even afford a second home in Tuscany anymore"

imagine the hardship

Coping classes my @rse.

Did you see this quote, on the last page...

"I do resent the fact that we pay taxes for the state school system even though we're not using it because I've seen the sort of unmotivated children it produces."

Tell me, AIBU in wanting to shoot that woman?

Oh FFS stupid woman . Get in the real world and get you're fat head out of you're middle class arse you twit

Coping classes my arse i would love to see her cope where I live oh the horror
I am a little overwrought today

my heart is bleeding

'At King Edward's, a high-achieving day school in Birmingham where fees are £8,500 a year, the bursary scheme has been redrawn so that the maximum household income at which a family can get support is now £68,000, up from £42,000.'

bloody hell. how can they be struggling on 68 grand!

Awww bless she can't get sky TV should we start a collection for her ? I bet she never has to worry about when the dc need new shoes .

what a silly bitch. I do resent paying for other people's children to be educated. God, it's so draining. Honestly, I don't know how I cope.

Look I am so angry I didn't use my your's right must be the sink school I attended

wheres xenia

"All three won swimming scholarships, so the Houstons have to find about £30,000 for fees and extras, like physiotherapy."

LOLOL NONCE

oh FFS! These families need to be stripped of their income for a few months; THEN they will know hardship.

People like this wind me up so much (also overwrought today!)

PS, YANBU!

I'd love to put them in a reality TV show - swap them with a sink-estate family for 6 months...

"the nouveau pauvre "

lol yah - tuscnay will have to be tow weeks this year not three

utter wankers
wheres me guillotine

in court osometimes we get fellow Jps who when assessing a fine( which is based on income) they say " oh look but they pay 20k in shcool fees a eyar"

my opinion is thwt so the fuck what>
they dont HAVE to; its like saying they haev a cocaine habit to feed.

if THEY snet TEHIR kids to state schools then htese everyhting woud even out imo.

That's a poor article. The State school quota thing is unaccurate in the case of Oxbridge. The Government have asked them to up their State school numbers and as far as I'm aware they have refused, saying that they will continue to select entirely on merit. They have, however, agreed to try and do more to get State school pupils to apply.