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

You said it cod!! Totally agree

What a horrible, horrible article and really vile people.

"But if you are forced to leave the public schools to the trust-fund toffs and arriviste oligarchs (while cleverly disguising your poverty as a principled stance against elitist education), there could well be unexpected, wholly perverse benefits in dispatching your children to a bog-standard comprehensive."

This is a very poorly drafted and wholly convoluted paragraph. See me after class and write out one hundred times 'I must not write nonsense in an attempt to magic a 1000 word article from the wisp of a gossip thread.'

Oxbridge state-private ratio of places allocated is almost exactly in proportion to the state-private ratio of applicants. As I often find myself pointing out.

Those sorts of stories are bizarre. I think they are actually "aspirational" in a way. I think they want to provoke the "oh if only those were my problems" reaction, along with legitimising moaning by people who in their heart of hearts know they are incredibly lucky.

Though said people increasingly hide the fact of their good fortune from themselves by thinking their relative wealth is a sign of their own intrinsic value. I've stopped reading newspapers altogether. They make you want to vomit.

I shall go off and enjoy my nice fantasy now about being supreme ruler and sending moaning middle classes for a spell down the mines to get some perspective.

maybe she went to a sink schoool

lol
i do hope so.

blimey tech is on the case. this is sewiousss

eh cod? Don't get that last one. Soren that was a particularly obnoxious quote you found. So yes children who's parents cannot afford fees are not worth educating?

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ok imagine a wealthy middel calss person in court.

they haev an fine based on income, we look at income and exp.

one exp is a huge school fees bill.some mags wnat it taken into account liek you might take child support into account.

others
say that its an OPTIONAL exp not a compulsory one and that tbht he kid woudl surviev( unless sn) in a normal(!) school.

Chequers - you are quite right, the choices (not sacrifices, ffs) that this family are making are absolutely loopy IMO.

Yes, it's a bit like saying "ooh, look, they have a fleet of Mercedes to support" or "look, they employ three nannies" and taking that into account.

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OMFG - is that article for real?

adn what do oyu rememebr about childhood?
holidays!!!

Cod - the defendant would be bound by a legal obligation to settle the school fees. If the defendant can't pay his outgoings because the fine set is unrealistic then the children are going to have to be removed from their school. Surely, that is punishing the children rather than the criminal himself?
Could you earmark the school fees money so that if his commitments change (ie he sends his children to a state school) he is obliged to inform the court of this change in circumstance?

With exactly the same info, you could write a much better article IMO about dysfunctional families that need serious psychotherapy to get their priorities sorted

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well thats the argument yes but tbh if it that si the issue perhaps the perosn needs to consider that before they commit the crime.

Sedbergh School in Cumbria is a school for really thick rugby chumps.

tbh its rarely over 1k so its pocket money for a lto of em

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LOLOL at barmaid.