School Fees - Does anyone have an 'unusual' arrangement?

[icarriedawatermelon2]

in terms of how you pay, or your discount?

3 for 2, i've tried to get a BOGOF but they didn't go for that :(

Thank you for your reply. Anyone else?

what sort of arrangement were you looking to do?

Ah ok, yes veritythebrave this is the sort of thing I was getting at. How did it work veritythebrave?

Were you ever concerned that they might change or review the discount?

Someone I know became the bursar at a very well known school, and then got amazing discounts (40%?) for her DDs. Not sure if all staff got the same discount, though.

:0 wow!

Dss school has a 20% discount for 3rd child and a bigger 25% discount for 4th child but even with only 6 years between all mine I'm not going to be able to make any use of it

I teach at the school my daughter attends and get free schooling. This includes the uniform, food and transport.

40% discount is not unusual for staff. It does vary but as marcopront says, some schools educate staff's children for free.

At DC's old prep school staff got a 50% discount

Our particular example:

Staff at ours get 50% in junior school and 75% in senior (yr 7 +). Inland revenue have fun with benefits in kind much over that - beware compliance inspections.

Discounts for part time staff are pro rata on that rate. Volunteers absolutely do not qualify for a discount, but some schools might differ.

Sibling bursaries can vary wildly. They are set at largest rates for youngest child. 2nd child is 10%, 3rd is 20% - more than 3 and it may well be negotiable for further children.

Sometimes we might negotiate deposits normally paid for every child where more than 2 start at once.

We will always bend over backwards to assist in paying - 12 monthly is now common over our usual 9 month arrangement. Short term holidays while (for example) property sales are being waited for (or other equity release/business deals) are always considered where there is reasonable proof the promise will be met.

I sleep with the Headmaster. I get 85% reduction on boarding fees

Seriously, most teaching staff below SLT level get between 30% and 60% of day fee reduction, depending on the school. Rather bad form to ask before you have applied, or make it clear on an application form - it's something to discuss after you have been offered the job.

For anyone else, it's the bursary route. There is such a thing as the Bribery Act which all Bursar's should be aware of. It is considered wrong now, for example, to give feeder school head's children discounted fees, where once this was common place. Any giving things quid pro quo is just tax evasion.

There are bursaries and discounts for children of the clergy in many independent schools.

The Pepper v Hart case means teachers are charged a minimum of 15% (being the marginal cost of the place) otherwise the whole place is treated assa benefit in kind so a £20k free place would mean a teacher would need to pay say 40% tax is £8k to take up a free place! This is why for example for one of our children we paid 15% of the school fees when they were at the school their parent taught at. Most schools do not and cannot afford such generous staff discounts and many teachers' children cannot necessarily pass the exam to the school their parent teachers at anyway.