To wonder how the bloody hell people afford private education for their kids?

[HarderToKidnap]

Thinking about TTC and getting WAY ahead of myself I idly googled the local private schools. Bloody hell!! HOW do people afford this? My DH and I earn 100k between us every year so certainly not poor, but with a mortgage (on a two bed terrace) and other, what I consider to be reasonable, outgoings there is just not a way it could be done. So all these children being privately educated, do their parents earn masses and masses? Or am I missing a trick?

(Incidentally I wouldn't send my kid to private school - comprehensive was brilliant for me and if a child is going to do well they will do well, I believe. Was just wondering.)

Yes it was Repton, but I am sure that was day fees.

3.6K a term would be very doable for us. Oh well - living somehere prett costs in lots of ways.

Houses are cheaper here, excellent train links to London, some lovely mumsnetters about , bottom of the peak district, airport not too far away. I can't ask for anything more.

Repton's really expensive, there are far cheaper schools.

With an awful lot of sacrifices if you earn a 'good wage' and with no sacrifices if you earn a truck load! I'm in the first category and next yr all 3 of mine will be at independent school (for various reasons) We have friends who do the same and friends who don't - regular dinner party conversation and a few don't join in because they earn so much money that it really doesn't affect their lifestyle very much as far as I can see (3 expensive hols a yr, big extension on large house) They are few and far between though. Once you get your head around the 'it's going to cost this many thousand a year' thing though, you just cut your cloth and see what you can do to meet it.

All of our independents here are big public schools of the ilk of Repton tbh.

We are willing to cut our cloth but there is only so much cloth to cut.

30k a year for 6th form (fluffy's fainted)

Daisy, can you teach in the school? They offer a discount for staff

I will probably end up doing that to be honest. I have been approached in the past about job in the independent sector, but want to work my way up a little further in the state sector first.

Pixie of course it is......depends on ones lifestyle surely

We made a choice NOT to privately educate ours but also wanted the best education we could afford

we made a lifestyle choice to live where we live ... if the schools had not been what we had hoped we would make a lifestyle choice to move our children private

education is our priority

That is funny Posy, dh works at a fantastic private school, where the fees are £30,000 a year, unfortunately even with a discount (which we don't qualify for anyway), there is no way we could afford to send our 2 (soon to be 3) dcs there.

Pixie but people are as 'fortunate' as you keep banging on that you are

People CAN make lifestyle changes to afford school fees

not just you

of course most people cannot afford school fees
many don't want to

The assumption that only people who choose private schools care about their dcs education ,pisses me off so much [rage]

harder to kidnap- you'd find a way to afford it if you lived in either of the 2 catchments I've lived in

1st school had a 0% (no typo) exam pass rate and a few years ago had a pupil stabbed to death in the corridor

2nd school has the 2nd highest rate of expulsions for violence in the country (lots of gangs)

so my 3 options are:

1. go back to work (if I can get a job) and use my entire salary to pay fees ( we manage on 16k (2 adults+2 kids) now and will have to just get used to it)

2)get a bursery

3)home educate

My dd is at a crap state primary where she has to dodge chairs being thrown and stays in at lunch so the bullies don't get her. I clearly don't give a shit.

Where on earth does it say that parents don't give a monkeys if they don't send their child to a private school?

if i really cared about my kids education I would home educate at primary level

sadly i don't have the strength stamina or patience...

I really care about my child's education, this is why I send him to school. I also do not have the strength, stamina or patience.

Most private day school fees are about £10k a year, certanily at primary level. My sons' are about that as were all the other children. Haberdashers where my daughter went is about £10k even in the upper school and it's often in the top 20 for A levels.

How do I afford it? I made wise career decisions and I work hard.

so they can work all hours god sends so they can afford to send their childre to private school....

I don't understand what is so bad about earning enough to be in a position to pay school fees.

Well, there's no grammar school here.