To think that those private school parents banging on about their fees

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Seriously have misjudged how little anyone else gives a stuff??? NHS, social care, state education, public transport, bloody potholes everywhere - that’s what matters to everyone I know.
Not whether or not VAT is added to a business.

YANBU - it’s hardly the end of the world if Clemmie or Charles end up going to a state school. We have bigger things to worry about in the U.K. right now

YABU - of course everyone cares private school parents might have to pay more

People on this thread sound like they have never even met a private school parent; some of these comments are just wildly inaccurate it’s insane

And pay for

If you really do not understand that very very few people would have £15k to spend on school fees you really really are out of touch

maybe not in the world of MN or the small insulated world of private schooling but you only need to read up on how many families now receive top up benefits, the countless reports on how even those that are earning above average wages are now struggling and how the economy suffered as people do not have money to spend

good grief where have you been these last few years

No - in my experience, state to independent is quite common but not really the other way around. I have not come across one single teacher who has gone the other way. Also, my pay was better in the independent sector and the working environment was a world apart from the state schools I taught in.

It's the lack of awareness that is mind blowing.

It's not a great advert for private education tbf.

And you speak for all parents?🙄

That the state will have to pay for

When we get to senior school for three children the extra 20% will be £18,000 per year but we would need to earn an extra £45,000 to fund that. We have plans to meet that cost but we are incredibly lucky to just manage that and certainly am not looking for any sympathy. Other parents we’ve talked to are going to move into the next town to grammar school catchment.

Our prep school has a nearly perfect 11+ pass rate so there is a strong possibility they’ll be taking places from children who don’t have that intensive support behind them.

Equally, the government fund nearly 11,000 boarding school places for military children so they’ll be paying an extra 20% for all of those too!

2 parents working FT in minimum wage jobs earn nearly 50k between them and pay almost no income tax.

This.

No, I’m not saying someone who sends 3 children to school isn’t comparatively well off.

please check your comprehension.

I am saying that they won’t be able to pay the VAT increase and will move to state. That’s what I estimate half the children in my son’s year will do.

I am addressing the myriad of insane posts on here who think people can just suck up another 10k a year because they send their children to private school already. No, they can’t.

Well more than you do because it is apparent you have no idea who an average private parent is. Do you actually know any?

You can’t even manage the maths. £65 million is a huge bill for the taxpayer to be lumbered with.

By far the most insane one was that most people haven't been affected by the COL crisis. It did me me chuckle.

It’s the same old, same old. Private school parents are not GPS or dentists or normal working parents, they are in the small minds of many billionaires able to absorb any amount of taxes lumped on them. No wonder they are leaving in droves!

it’s pathetic that you want to sort out inequalities by fucking with the private schools. My immediate thought would be to improve the state schools to make things more equal. Sad.

Ooh they will, be taking up places in the good state schools so making it more difficult for those who can't afford private schools and end up going to a rubbish state school as the private school parents may live img old catchment areas

“Assuming this tiny percentage is 1% of 500,000 that will leave the private school sector.
That is an extra 50k students (at the very least) that you will need to find places for.”

1% of 500 000 is 5000 not 50k

In good catchment areas or move there

Yes - this will hit working class people on minimum wages - but that's ok because we get to have a pop at some poshos. It's actually embarrassing.

The IFS estimate was 5%. The ASI and subsequent forecasts are between 7-10%

The beauty of this "free" country is that you're (technically) allowed to complain about whatever you wish.

There is nothing wrong with state schools. Kids get the same results. Unfortunately the old boys network and other inequalities from private education ensure state kids are under represented in the top jobs and unis.

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The best state school places will be hoovered up. Education will nosedive across the board, the state teachers already holding on by their fingernails will evaporate and things WILL be even worse for most kids than it was before.

I can not see any upside up this ridiculous virtue signalling from Starmer to shut down his hard liners on the far left.