To ask MNHQ for a Private Schools board?

[frankentall]

So all the 2 million threads started each day about the moral rights to private education, the immense sacrifices and the sheer unfairness of everything visited upon the poor lambs who bravely go without food, shelter and transport because they believe in sending their kids to fee-paying school can be moved there and away from everywhere else? Please?

I don’t read them. Too busy making sacrifices because I actually love my children.

There is already a 'boarding school' topic so it wouldn't be a huge leap to add private schools - or perhaps 'fee paying schools' would be a more general term to include public schools.

I think that's the General Election board.

God yes. So sick of them.

It would be good to separate out private from primary and secondary. Only some private schools have a primary/secondary split at age 11 so it doesn't fit. It's also confusing to have 11 plus questions where the OP doesn't say they don't mean state.

This is nasty. Think what you like of parents but children will be disrupted. I wouldn't wish unpleasant things on a child.

Yes. I myself am eating one spoon of thin gruel tonight with an onion from yesterdays bin to send Artemis and Theodorus Regus to private school.

THAT is how much I don’t spend my money on the latest Gucci or sun holiday.

Let's ask for a series of boards - Royal Mumsnetters, Upper Class Mnetters, Upper Middle Class Mumsnetters, Middle Middle Class Mumsnetters, Lower Middle Class Mumsnetters, Working Class Mumsnetters, Nouveau Riche Mumsnetters, Mumsnetters without a pot to piss in ....

Have you thought about taking in ironing?

I take in ironing
sit in the dark all winter
Family cloths instead of toilet paper (sorry it’s dinner time I know)
Gruel
Got the dog put down
and a tiny, ickle violin is now all I’ve got left. 🎻

YANBU. And based on those threads, I no longer feel bad that I can't afford private school fees.

Regardless of views on private education, there are a lot of threads and so it would make sense.

There is already a board called general election and umpteen education boards

Only if people who post there are also banned from posting in AIBU. Otherwise we’ll all still get bombarded with them.

Wow. “Unpleasant things” as in? Going to the local state school? Or are all these children younique with speshul requirements who will all be devastated if indeed all these children have to go to the comp?

See. More nastiness. Having to move school is disruptive and if you have to do it mid-GCSE then well to be honest it would be worse than unpleasant. It would potentially mean you have to resit a year if you've not been taught the same syllabus.

As for "speshul" and "younique", what a shitty thing to say about SEN children.

These are children whose lives might be disrupted for political points. Yes I do think that is unpleasant. Children have already been very negatively affected by remote learning, and now even more disruption.

I think it is fine to have some disagreement with other adults but policies that target children like this - overnight - are awful.

Labour should be honest. Do they want to abolish private school? Fine. Do it. I'd vote for that IF it were done responsibly planned and over a long period. I think Finland did this. So it could work.

As for "speshul" and "younique", what a shitty thing to say about SEN children.

Oh, behave.

Having to move school is disruptive and if you have to do it mid-GCSE then well to be honest it would be worse than unpleasant.

If you can't afford to keep a child in private school for one year (possibly two if your local secondary does three year GCSEs) without a VAT exemption, then you couldn't really afford it in the first place.

There's been talk about it for a while so time to look at your finances.

Whenever I've been over to the education board, it's all been people asking about private/public schools. So I think that's pretty much the private school board.

But as for the kids, fuck em? Right?

Dunno, frothing from tax evaders has a certain entertainment.

Indeed

It's almost as if some people have such a level of entitlement that they are absolutely indignant at the mere suggestion they pay VAT and are incapable of letting it go.

The state school ones yes, they have been for many years.

Too much enjoyment

God how spiteful. She means unpleasant things in terms of uprooting a child.

It’s true that it won’t be that pleasant for state school class sizes to have to go up with resources stretched ever thinner, but take heart, Keir will make good.