Please don’t think like that!
it is all smoke and mirrors.
1 in 3 cannot afford it. Period.
The ones who can are paying and subsidising everyone else.
How long do you think this will continue when families gain more knowledge on school finance and bursary allocation and realise they are going without to line the pockets of others. Better to save their money for their own children. The only way for independent school to survive is to remove all tiered fee structure and everyone to contribute equal fees to the pot.
Ensuring plenty of revenue coming in and no drop in standards or cutting corners with provision.
They won’t ever do that far too many of the administration/friends/family/staff all in receipt of the discounts payments which are subsidised directly from full fee payers. This is why so many merge or close and this is happening in every independent school.
Annual financial accounts lump figures together to disguise ‘discounts’ and ‘bursary’ giving the external impression this allocation is going to disadvantaged deserving candidates from the wider community. In reality the funds are going as discounts and “hardship” support to non means tested middle class families to help pay their kids fees.
Labour understand this they knew this spotlight on private school finance would uncover sheer internal greed and whether families not affording and leaving or families saying what am I paying for and leaving it would be brought to light.
The great defenders of private school and aggressors towards what Labour have done tend to be those in receipt of large school bursary or discounts (it doesn’t take a “private” school educated “superiority complex” to figure out motive).
My point is most trying to make anyone at state feel small, cannot afford to be in private school. 1-3 be thankful your children excel and are happy with what they’ve got without having to elbow or dip toes in such a murky financial pond to “appear” to be something they’re not. 1 in 3.