Teaching in private school

[mummynumnum]

If you teach in a private school, do your children get free or discounted places?

I don't think 15% is very much!

My school is 25% and I think that is low (thankfully, DD has an academic scholarship too).

My DSs' school has 67% fee remission for teachers.

One paid 15% from age 4 to 12. That wa sit. I've paid for the other 4 full fees right throughout except sorry that one with the big discount he did get a discount from a music scholarship at 12+ - can't remember the mount. It wasn't massive. 10% off?

I think the better bigger private schools - my daughters' school for example offer no or a tiny tiny 10% off discount for teachers' children who may well not pass the exam to get in anyway. I remember my mother going on about a boy in my brother's class who was a bit thick and only seemed to be at the school before his father taught there and he never did very well. That's obviously not ideal and we knew someone else at my daughter's school who was a teacher's child and she had to leave because she just really wasn't clever enough to be in the school although presumably they thought she was when she got in.

My ds got a pretty big reduction with staff discount/sibling discount and choral scholarship. I know they had to calculate the fees differently to normal cos otherwise the school would have been paying us .
You're right about kids getting in who arent up to it Xenia - I think it's true of some of the staff kids where DH teaches, but not just confined to them. Loads of overseas students who dont necessarily have great english language so god knows how they pass the entrance test! Unless the entrance test is based on writing the cheque

That probably depends on the school. I suspect most good schools do test teachers' children. If the child had an IQ of 100 or 90 and everyone else in the school is 120+ then it wouldn't be right. Some boarding schools with very low numbers take almost anyone who will apply (obviously not places like Eton but a lot of others have only filled places by reruiting in China etc which is offputting for the other children not because it's racist - it's because of the effect - one person we know was the only non chinese girl at school at weekends for example, very very isolating unless you want to practice your mandarin every weekend. If it's just a few then it's not the same issue.

No discount at DD's school for teaching staff's children AFAIK.

The pension depends, I have been looking at some private jobs and some have their own pensions scheme and some us the same scheme. They don't always pay more, for example at the state school I am in because it is so tough they pay you the top amount for responsibilty points. Many of the jobs I have seen are paying less money for a head of department post then I am for my present post which in theory is lower down the scale. But this is not always the case, some of the larger public schools pay more money.

I would have thought it quite unusual not to get a discount hulababy.

It does mean you are tied in to working at that school for a long time...I get 2/3rd off till 18 .

However, alot of other jobs I may have gone for have not offered such good a deal!

2/3 is a very good deal! Do they need an RE teacher?

I don't think they do though, not at DD's school anyway - I know someone who was a TA there a while back, and asked her this as she knew the teachers socially at the time. I know hey don't get a discount at the new preschool either.

I don't think the staff get discounts at the High School either but may be as part of teh GDST.

They have altered the contracts since I started...no longer such a good deal!