Frustrating - Teachers discount

[DonnyDontDoDat]

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone agrees with me on this.
Where I live there is a chain (or Trust) of private schools, they have a couple of senior schools/all through schools, some prep schools and some nursery/pre-schools.
We send our DD to one of the pre-schools, no intention of sending her to the prep school or beyond, but it is open term time only (I work term time only not as a teacher though) and has longer hours than the other term time only options around us and took kids from younger than the other term time only options.
Today I found out that the teachers at any of the schools (Pre-school - Sixth form) get a 50% fee reduction if they work at least 3 days a week or equivalent and 25% if they work less than that at any of the schools, so a sixth form teachers child could be getting 50% fees on pre-school for example. This excludes lunch which is billed separately and the breakfast and late clubs (so 7.30-9 and 3-6).
AIBU to think this is really frustrating? I feel like I'm basically subsidising fees for teachers who aren't even at my child's school?
Why would they do this??

I have never came a school that doesn't offer this as an incentive. With respect it is probably harder to secure teachers than possibly other roles due to discipline demand.

Employers are under no obligation to offer equal t&C's. The fee is the fee and you have a choice on purchasing the service or going elsewhere. This is the nature of the current market.

Yabvvvvu. It's in your interests to recruit and retain good teachers.

My friend calls this golden handcuffs. She’s stuck in a job she hates as the perks for her kids are so good

This is pretty standard practice. Lots of schools offer discounts to any staff, not just teachers. It helps the members of staff and brings in fees. You aren’t subsidising anyone.

It's also a great advertising statement for their brochure: This school is fantastic! Even our staff are happy to send their DC to this school...

This is a normal way of recruiting / retaining teachers.

How very entitled of you

YABU this happens in pretty much all private schools - staff discount. I’m sure if you were a teacher and applied there you wouldn’t think it was frustrating then... One of the benefits of working there and to attract applicants. Just like any other job with benefits.

Most independent schools do this. Not sure what your issue is.

This is a massively helpful way for school to attract and retain staff. So it's up to you whether you want the school your children attend to be fully staffed by qualified people.

YABU. You are not subsidising anything. This is an employees benefit that helps the school attract good teachers that will stay long term. The school recognises that this will benefit their students so that’s what they do.

Standard - been going on for ever. This was common practice when I was at school 50 years ago !

It attracts and retains good teachers. Swop your kids to state with numerous supply teachers all year for their GCSEs if you don't like it.

I thought this was common knowledge and I didn't attend private school nor have children who will. Many companies offer discounts to staff eg my BIL works for a car manufacturer and he gets a small discount.
Get a job there if it bothers you so much.

Could you imagine the optics if private school teachers sent their children to a different a school.

Are you going to have a strop about supermarket employees being given staff discount? Bus drivers getting free travel? Airline staff getting perks? I could go on. Suck it up.

This is normal for independent schools to attract and more importantly keep the best teachers they can secure. A lot of independent school teachers have to do more extra curriculum activities than state school colleagues. When I worked at an independent school it was mandatory to offer at least 1 extra curricular club or activity every week after school hours, some did twice a week. Any teachers DC got a 50 percent discount for first DC then 40 percent for any subsequent DC from nursery through to Sixth Form.

Would you also object to bursaries being paid out of fee income? A family on a teacher's salary at my school would pay no more than a member of staff.

There are a lot of blue light discounts, for example. So people who work in emergency services get discounts for all kinds of things. Supermarket workers get discounts on food, airline staff and train staff get free travel.

If they can recruit a sixth form teacher when their dc are in nursery and the dc go on through the schools then they keep the teacher for 14/15/16 years. More if they have more than one child.

How is it different to any workplace perk?
Supermarket staff get in store discounts
Fast food workers get free food
Theatre employees get free tickets
Airlines workers get free/reduced travel

Just when I think that private parents can’t surprise me anymore with their pettiness and whining, along comes another one with yet another reason for me to be glad we avoided private schools and the parents there.

You're being ridiculous - it's very common to provide staff with a perk. It's a good way of retaining them. Secondly you won't be subsidising them, the school will instead make a hit on their profits.

It's a workplace perk - perfectly reasonable for all the reasons above.
This is a rare thread - 100% think YABU so far..

It's also very poor business accumen