Request a state school place if you want it or not

[clarkkentsglasses]

This email is doing the rounds aimed at private school parents:

"The idea is to try to flood the Council with requests for urgent school places from September. If they get tens of thousands of emails like this we may see them under pressure."

Basically request a state school place if you want it or not.

So they're dickheads prepared to fuck up essential safeguarding procedures and stop vulnerable children getting school places AND they're around seven years out of date with current affairs?

Not the smartest, for all their money, are they?

report? this is just fanning the flames with no source whatsoever

so from who is this email op?

and why don’t you post a screenshot of the non existent email

Ive reported this thread. I’d be interested to see which school OP has seen send this.

id wager

1. op won’t clarify who sent it
2. wont post a screen shot

and 3. won’t be back

clarkkentsglasses The NUT has been the NEU for many years now.
If private schools are abandoned I’d be happy - affluent parents can start to ale and interest in state schooling.

It won't They'll have to take a place at the undersubscribed schools, which presumably are the ones they were desperate.to avoid in the first place! Poetic justice.

Very unreasonable of them. Not only will it cause councils to have to spend huge sums sorting out the mess (out of the state school budget), it is also completely unfair to those who are having to move their dc out of private school for genuine reasons.

I have heard this from other parents on a local FB chat. I was just really shocked! I think it's a parent driven "round Robin"

What utter arseholes. I hope the 20% increase definitely happens. It’s an utter con private schools have got away with it for this long.

So you haven't actually seen this email...?

Entitled selfish pricks

This gives private school parents a bad name. Very selfish indeed.

I mean WhatsApp not FB

Oh goody another thread.

I can't wait to vote Labour because of all the moaning private school parents.

If people do this they are incredibly selfish, what about the children who have no other options than state schools?
Money doesn’t buy class, sometimes it just creates entitled arseholes. This would be a perfect example of that.

It's just morally not right to even think this if I'm honest.

Quite

Utterly selfish and totally self absorbed.

Honestly all this continued nonsense is turning people off being sympathetic. They are just showing g themselves to be completely out of tune with the actual problems in state schools.

The building work needed at DDs school is now so severe itsbeen mentioned in Parliament. The cost needed is approximately equivalent to the annual fees at the nearest Private school for 56 pupils. Unfortunately there isn't 56 vacancies in the school for private parents to send them there and donate the fees instead...

That will just affect the state school kids and end up with them seperated from siblings. Utterly selfish. Its not going to change anything. People are voting for this to happen.

its BS OP

post a screenshot if not

The NUT that no longer exists?

so initially it was an email

then facebook

and now whatsapp

😆

Do let’s play through what happens:

Parent apply. Council either says

• Yes, there is an in year place, which you must take up within the next 2 weeks or lose OR

• No, there is not a place at your preferred school. We have allocated you a place at nearest undersubscribed school. We have placed you on a waiting list, and this is is how to appeal, but in the meantime you need to take up the place offered or you lose it.

Can you explain to me how this very normal interaction, happening many times a day all over the country, creates panic?

The number of them in Active is getting a bit ridiculous now. Private school parents will fall into 3 categories if VAT is introduced.
Those who will just pay without batting an eyelid because they're loaded
Those who will find the extra money from other things, like holidays, to keep their kids in private
Those who absolutely can't afford the extra and unfortunately will have to ship their kids off to a state school. The latter will be in the minority