If you’re charged VAT will you remove your child from their private school? I’m v stressed!

[Liikklu]

We won’t be able to pay the increase. Only hope is asking grandparents for the shortfall which we don’t want to do. Anyone else in a similar boat? Do you think it will literally be a 20% increase on fees or will schools absorb some of it? Our school has said they will address the matter ‘if and when’ it applies.

Yes, and when l taught in one nice school, they got a lot less funding than the one across the city that had nice MacBooks. Whilst out kids had 15 year old computers with no keys.

You can’t see the tone? Sorry I can’t help you with that.

Have you taught in a selective grammar? No parent with a bright dyslexic kid is going to send their child into that hornet's nest with no provisions.

Show me a ‘hysterical’ post about state schools on this thread.

You are assuming all those who are in poverty are aggressive parents and antisocial kids. That just says it all doesn't it what an attitude you have about those in poverty.

So he sent his children to state school, wants to use money from private schools to improve state schools but he’s the hypocrite, not the Conservative Party who have underfunded state schools for 14 years to the point where you are sending your child to a private school. Ok!

I suspect...

1. It might not happen, or
2. It could be phased in as with the end of Direct Grant Schools
3. Schools may well look at their costs etc harder than they have done in the past to try and 'ease the pain'
4. Those with significant endowments could use income from that over the short term at least

etc etc

Given what private education did for Johnson, Cameron and Sunak I cant understand why anyone wants it for their own children

But, it isn't about you. Governments make decisions they believe are for a greater good long-term. Labour has long-held policies that relate to their stance on private education. They have ranged from abolishing it to this watered-down compromise.
Personally, I would abolish private education and offer independent schools the opportunity to apply to become academy chains- if their numbers are robust enough.

@Thegreatergoodgerald
"Ask your school. The 90 odd percent of people who don’t use private schools don’t know, and don’t care!"
I don't and never did use private schools, but I certainly care. No one knows how many parents will opt out and use state schools instead (for which they already pay through their taxes).
This then will have an effect on local schools, but no one knows how many extra children the local education authority will have to accommodate.
I understand the Labour Party have costsed that 5-7 percent of parents will move their children, but they do not actually know.
To answer the OP question, Rachel Reeves suggested that private schools should make cuts elsewhere, but the thing is, private schools may already be cutting to the bone. The answer is that some schools will be able to absorb the cost; some schools may be able to absorb part of the cost, and some schools will pass it all on to the parents, but we do not know which. The result will be that some parents will remove their children; some schools may close if too many parents remove their children.
These children will then have to be educated in the state system, and the LA will have to find the extra places / funding for them.

Meanwhile the super rich - lets take our Rishi Sunak as our example who has assets of at least £550 million paid about 23% in tax last year , whereas someone earning between 50 and 100k will pay close to 50% in tax. Why is no-one up in arms about that?

Well you were quoting me, and saying ‘you’ so its a safe assumption that you were talking to me without actually having read my posts.

It is my life, so for me this is affecting us very much. It's not about you either then, presumably?

The only people NOT affected by this is the super rich.

LuluBlakey1Personally, I would abolish private education and offer independent schools the opportunity to apply to become academy chains- if their numbers are robust enough.

@LuluBlakey1

"Personally, I would abolish private education and offer independent schools the opportunity to apply to become academy chains- if their numbers are robust enough."
Sorry, meant to say that this is a nice idea in theory, but in practise, they can just move abroad, and parents can still opt to have extra tuition after school.

No they don’t. Governments make short termist policies which give them power for a short while. All of them - no matter the rosette.

@Liikklu hope you get your answer in the Facebook group as this threat has been hijacked by people who do not send their kids to private school.

My reading of it was that anybody who believes that all children should have the same opportunities, regardless of family wealth, is a communist. In short, you're lucky this is 2020s UK and not the early 1950s US. Ffs.

Also, my DH and I paid over £60k in tax last year, so I sleep pretty well at night knowing we have made a decent contribution to society already thanks.

Fairly reasonable assumptions. You spend my entire annual income on school fees, yet I could save £4,000 in a year if really pushed.

Your tone? Agree

Because there aren’t any bright children in comprehensives? Do you think us parents who send our children to state schools don’t value education?

I think more higher rate tax payers should start going on UC threads. Considering the majority are state dependents. Start telling people to cut their cloth. Start working how much of their tax contributions fund them. Oh that wouldn’t be appropriate? Why click on the thread? It doesn’t impact you. How judgemental. How tone deaf. But it’s an open forum..absolute irony overload.

Ah, I see the "Champagne socialist" card has been played.

Remember the rules, folks:

• Anyone who earns less than average and votes for a party other than the Conservatives is motivated by envy and trying to get something for nothing.
• Anyone who earns more than average and votes for a party other than the Conservatives is a hypocritical champagne socialist.

Glad we've got that sorted. As you were!

@Karensalright let me know how that goes. Good luck 😉

Don't vote labour