So, if you did win £100m, where would you educate your child?

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Was not me who won, but we did have a discussion at home about what we would do.

Options open up for sure, but which to pick?

Just need to know in case my numbers ever come up

Ds is at an independent specialist school and the LA foot the £50,000pa bill so I wouldn't change a thing not least because it cost me money to get the LA to fund him there and I'm happy to force them to fund no matter how rich I might be. Dd goes to the most wonderfully inclusive primary and is very happy there so again I wouldn't move her but I would fund independent specialist school for secondary for her.

I would keep them where they are, arrange some damn good after-school care and go off for a bit on holiday on my own.

DS is only 5, so I'd probably pull him out of school for a year while we travelled the world and decided what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives. Maybe find a tutor to come with us who didn't mind the odd bit of babysitting .

After that it would depend where we decided to live and what the schools were like. State preferably, unless he was going to stick out like a sore thumb on account of our wealth. We'd definitely move so he wouldn't stay at his existing school, though I do like the idea of giving it a load of cash so it had amazing facilities and brilliant opportunities for the kids,many of whom who live in a deprived area.

I would leave DD is the same independent secondary school she currently goes to.

We like the school, DD likes the school and she has many friends there. We woudn't be leaving the area so no reason to move her.

I'd spend money on the (state) infant school which I work at though :)

Another who'd keep them at their current local state schools. The thought of having that much money scares me, though, so I think I'd only keep a small proportion of it.

the issue with that kind of money ...they will be part of the global elite able to live anywhere in the world and create businesses or even do a lot of good if they were allowed to adopt the right social conscience ...and need to be educated as such. I'm intrigued by this comment, and the assumption (if I've read it right) that receiving an elite education will help someone to do a lot of good. I'd have thought living among real people with real problems would be more likely to help someone to want to do good in the world.

motown....you are forgetting the hordes of ultra-rich foreigners who send their children here purely for a British private education and invest their millions here in property ...they may not be resident here for tax purposes though, so may not count in your surveys, and I speak from direct experience of those sort of schools.

hhhm amber ...you really think a very very rich child going to the local comp is going to turn out that way- thinking oh I feel so sorry for all my poor peers so I am going to turn into a philanthropist?

There is no assumption that an elite education is going to make them that way either but at least if they have that, they may be able to hold their own with the rest of the global elite they happen to meet. What is wrong with an elite education anyway?

I'm not arguing that there's anything wrong with an elite education (or at least not on this thread ), rather that I didn't understand the link between receiving one and becoming a philanthropist. I agree that being a rich kid at a comp won't necessarily do that either, but I can't help thinking that someone with an understanding of how the other half lives is more likely to want to use their money to do good than someone who's lived a life of privilege, cocooned from the real world. Do you not agree?

I too would keep them in their current fab school. I would buy a couple of houses opposite the gate and build a bigger house in their place. I'd refurb the original building and add a better play space for the children. I'd pay for extra staff to be employed where necessary.

So far you have all convinced me that I am right - that there are certainly better schools out there, elsewhere in the UK but that DS is not at one of them. Would pull him out if won £100k

Someone asked where my kids fab school is - it's the Gaelic Medium School in Glasgow. Fabulous!!

And not a Gove in sight!

My daughter' state selective school came second in the school rankings for final year marks last year so I'd probably leave her where she was. It has consistently been in the top five for the past decade. DS is not as academic due to a speech disorder, I think a nearby boy's private school (oldest in Australia) would be excellent for him because it has such a good reputation with sports and pastoral care. Unfortunately the fees run at $26,000+ a year so not an option for us ...until we win that 100m ;)

Home Educate with fab tutors travelling round the world with us.

Also wanted to add that even if we did win 100 million we probably wouldn't be guaranteed entry anyway. It's not just about who can pay. Luckily, I had an uncle through marriage (dad's cousin's husband) who taught there for years as a sportsmaster and was very popular so I would try to subtly mention that in the application or interview

Mine would stay exactly where they are

Well, I now have in writing the place at the £55K indi specialist school for DS1, so that just leaves DS2 to sort out. I'd put some by for the day the local village primary is no longer able to resist academisation and let the current HT call the shots. I might still need to set up that school with DS2 in mind, though.

I visited Stanford University when I was in my twenties - pre-DC and I was blown away by the aura of privilege and intellectual supremacy. (Am Oxbridge graduate myself). I have had a dream that my (then imaginary) daughter would go there ever since - so that's what I would do with my imaginary 100 MGBP. My actual DD, being irritatingly real, insists that she never ever wants to leave home mummy, and hence I have promised her that she can go to university on the Tube and never ever leave home .

I would've bought a house hear a fabulous state primary school and in catchment area for top secondary school so I can feel smug and tell everybody how silly it is to pay for education when it's available to everybody. It would have to be 2 separate houses in all fairness, though.

You cant buy your way into private schools you have to pass entrance tests.

You can buy your way into many private schools if your DC don't have special needs - but not necessarily the ones you'd really want - there's a Groucho Marx effect.

My children can go to any school they or I want as long as they could pass the exam. I pay fees already. I am happy with their children. There is no school in the UK or abroad I could not afford.

If it is a good academic school you cannot get in unless you pass the test (except perhaps Eton and Prince Happy but that's more the exception that proves the rule).

SparklySilverSequins, I'm with you on this one.