Keir Starmer went to private school

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AIBU to be shocked that Keir Starmer went to private school? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. So he enjoyed an excellent education which increased his social mobility and then wants to bring down the system that helped him, even when they gave him a 100% bursary so that his parents didn’t have to pay the fees?

This is from wiki:

Starmer passed the 11-plus examination and gained entry to Reigate Grammar School, which at the time was a voluntary-aidedselective grammar school.[1][12] The school converted into an independent fee-paying school in 1976, while he was a student. The terms of the conversion were such that his parents were not required to pay for his schooling until he turned 16, and when he reached that point, the school, by now a charity, awarded him a bursary that allowed him to complete his education there without any parental contribution.

I only found out about this today when I was googling the school for another reason and looked up the alumni. What a hypocrite. You didn’t hear about this in the election during all his “my father was a toolmaker” speeches.

Maybe I value children’s education more than you do. No wonder we’re in such a mess if you think like that.

Some of the current cabinet send their kids to private schools now. What's your point?

He is to be judged for the decisions his parents took?

OP, I think you need to pause and think before posting

Criticising the messiah won't go well for you OP. Straws will be clutched.

Have you got Stockholm syndrome?

That’s your husband

what’s your background Op?

That didnt apply to Boris Johnson.

Nice try OP

Try a thread about Brexit and the new EU trade deal.

Do give it a rest, OP. This is well known already (did you only just become interested in politics?) and no-one would leave a good school they were happy at just because it became private but they didn't have to pay fees.

Private schools are a luxury - most people aren't even close to being able to afford them.

are you prone to laughable hyperbole in RL?

That’s the bit that is important in this situation and the bit that makes me dislike him the most

children like him who were caught in the change to independent status had their fees paid so not to disrupt their education

When his son was doing his GCSE’s he went to that flat in London so as not to disrupt his revision

but all children this year were fair game and they just let them impose the Vat mid year and consequences were irrelevant. Disruption to the children was the punishment to make a political point. I think it was unforgivable. I don’t have a problem with the VaT on schools fees in principle but it should only have been phased in from starters in year 7 and not those already at school so as to have the same terms that he got.

Not this rubbish again!

My partner went to that school in the year above Keir. He lived in a mobile home park - many of his friends were from council houses.

I don't agree with the selective system but when comprehensive schools didn't exist you didn't actually get an opt out - grammar or secondary modern it was. Going to a grammar is no more showing approval of the system than going to a secondary modern.

Even if it was private that would have been a decision made by his parents, not him. There is no obligation on any child who was privately or selectively educated to defend those systems when they're an adult.

When did politics become about just screaming absolute nonsense rather than actually having some kind of reasoned discussion? Any thread on politics seems to have its quota of people just repeating the same mind-numbing garbage over and over again!

Keep rummaging in that barrel OP.

Why don't you try that thread and leave the OP to this one.

Yes "we are in this mess" because the majority of parents can't afford or don't want to pay private businesses to educate their children that's definitely it !

Did you have a say over which school you went to? I certainly didn’t

Was he a senior Labour politician at 16?

Is it possible that he didn't know then that he was going to be prime minister?

I went to a private school, if I was prime minister, I'd be supportive of the VAT changes as well.

Abhorrent - inspiring disgust and loathing, causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred.

I think that’s being kind to him and his party unless of course children don’t matter to you in which case you probably have bigger issues to address rather concerning yourself with semantics.

He went to a school that turned private.

But current children are being punished for decisions their parents took.

Indeed. Also as a child his schooling choice would have been determined by his parents. Not him.

Again, first comment nails the situation.

Name them please.

This was a desperate arguement the first 500 times it was raised.....

I don't think it is connected in any way - remember decency on legs that was Tony Benn?