Impact of abolition of public schools

[daffodilbrain]

Labour want all public schools abolished - hypothetically how much pressure would this put on the state- could we afford an extra 7% in the system. Can a government really abolish them if so how? Make them
Illegal? Remove their charitable
Status and probably make them even more elite?

Ah I love it when people with real, actual experience come on to a thread and completely debunk someone else's made up 'facts!'

I know, right? Very few countries worldwide have no fee-paying schools.

I suspect that the previous poster was getting muddled up with homeschooling vs private school? I know that Germany heavily restricts homeschooling, although I think some people do find ways round the rules.

Chip on the shoulder politics and almost certainly illegal, so I don't see this going anywhere. However, I do see major sources of tax revenue upping sticks and leaving if there is a Labour win in this general election. I am hoping that they do worse than expected so that Corbyn is forced out of office, but sadly I don't think that will bring the Labour Party back into the mainstream. I don't know what it will take, but there is a long road ahead before it becomes a party that I would consider voting for again.

Why do we hate private school? Because they are too good. If my kids can't go there, it's better nobody else could go there either!

It's interesting to see how people want to bring down the good education so that everyone could have "equal" education, rather than improving the bad education so that parents do not need to send their children to fee-paying schools.