Only a private school is good enough for my darling baby girl

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I can’t afford private school, I never thought I would think like this, but here I am fantasising about giving up my career in academia for a teaching gig at Jags or similar so that my precious baby can have the best.

I think it might be my area (Brixton) but the local schools have no greenery, are overcrowded and hectic, and when I’ve visited I’ve just not had a great feeling about them. The area itself is under a flight path, it’s so polluted and urgh I wish I lived in a giant house in a leafy suburb, sent my darling children to independent school and got whisked away to the maldives during half term.

Where oh where did you go so wrong in life?

You need to marry a banker.

Or be a banker

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Jags do proper full scholarships darling, you'll just have to get your baby a tutor immediately and coach her up for 10 years, get her to learn 3 instruments, and join a tennis club....voila

Find an academic gig in a cheaper area of country?

NI still have the 11 plus with grammar school system

Yeah ok

It isn't the be all.
There are plenty of people very successfully in life who have managed that without a private education.

No because then you’d be whisking yourself away to the Maldives and the OP wants to whisked away.

Move house/area?

Beg borrow that's what my sister did for her son - no car no holidays house falling apart ! But best decision she has ever made she says !

I’m afraid it doesn’t sound like teaching at Jags is the solution (unless your point is that they offer free schooling to the kids of people who teach there?)

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/dulwich/teachers-at-24000-a-year-dulwich-private-school-strike-over-low-pay-awards-and-pensions/

oh no it’s the fee remuneration

Exactly I want to be whisked away! And if possible I want to sit in first while the nanny sits in economy with the kids.

The only way to travel darling.

Possibility if DH is up for it

Shush.. our grammars are competitive and oversubscribed enough as it is!!

Quit your job, open up an only fans page 👍

Throuples are all the rage, you can make it work. Stick the one who gives you the ick in economy with the nanny and your DBG (darling baby girl).

When I lived in the area, Jags had a reputation for suicide and anorexia.

I genuinely spent a considerable amount of time yesterday fantasising about the London house - only to decide I’m not convinced on the area and it’s overlooked by the train tracks. So we would have to sell it. Maybe we take the furniture before selling it. I stopped before I started looking at schools near the shard.

What do you do IRL to support your daughter's education or is it just day dreaming?

You can try the cheapest private day school in the UK - the Glasgow Academy, but you will have to move I suppose?

This has to be a wind up, not a very good one, but a wind up nonetheless

Most likely yes.