Request a state school place if you want it or not

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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.

And as for not contributing anything, please tell me where the £30k in income tax and NI that I contributed last year is going.

Thanks to this shitty government, it certainly hasn't gone on the NHS or state schools. Maybe you should ask the Tories what they did with it? In the first term of the coalition, the richest in society quadrupled their wealth. I wonder how?

Your background has nothing to do with it. That was then.

My thinking exactly.

Where's the actual email?

Did you actually read the post that I was responding to? The poster stated that private school parents had never dealt with financial adversity so my background is very relevant.

What do the Conservative Party have to do with me? I didn’t vote for them. Are you actually saying that you want to punish private school children because you’re not happy with the current Government?

And my wealth certainly hasn’t quadrupled. Like most other working people, I am taxed more then ever and get very little in return.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/emily-thornberry-labour-gillian-keegan-institute-for-fiscal-studies-education-secretary-b1163150.html

Sorry, not sure if that link posted properly but someone needs to brief Emily Thornberry before she goes on TV

But once the NUT realise after a week that no private school parents want their darlings in the struggling school likes away, because places for September's intake have been allocated and the local authority can place a child anywhere, that they don't accept the place within the given time limited what then?

So you want to deliberately overload the system which will not inconvenience your child but will cause delays to the vulnerable kids who desperately need a change of school due to family breakdown, bullying etc?

And you want us to sympathize?

Screenshot and post the actual email or stop shit stirring.

Er that was my post. I am talking about financial adversity in this term of government.

Awful things have happened to a lot of people over the last 14 years. The conservatives are relevant because they were the architects of inflicting misery on vulnerable and disabled people. Which is why they need to go.

Most people who can afford private school can also afford VAT. If you can’t, can you really afford another 5 years of the Tories because free at the point of service healthcare is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. ‘We don’t do that on the NHS anymore’. Could you afford private healthcare?

Utterly pathetic.

It is truly appalling- I'd go as far as disgusting, and so so selfish.

Err no, you didn’t limit to the past 14 years. You said “Frankly, it boils my blood how people who’ve never had to deal with any kind of financial adversity”.

This policy has nothing to do with the Conservatives and the Labour Party are showing that they are just as bad by wanting to implement it. It’s not going to resolve any of the issues you raise and will damage some children in the process. As my mam always said, “two wrongs don’t make a right.”

As far as private healthcare goes, yes I do have it through work and have had it for most of my working career, even when I earned not much above minimum wage. But VAT on private school fees is not going to fix the NHS and the Tories have nothing to do with me.

Have a look at the Lib Dem manifesto if you want to see a positive education policy that isn’t going to take a swipe at any particular group of children.

Indeed we both grew up in council houses and have a dc in a private school.

Was the aim to make themselves look like cunts?

I would pass on the e-mail to the local Heads and Governors of local State Schools, and the local Press.

I haven't seen or heard of the supposed email and all 3 of our children are at private school (2 different schools)

If real though, it's utterly pathetic and infantile thing I have ever heard of.

It makes private school parents look utterly awful and I feel completely embarrassed by it.

I actually don't understand all the hysteria about this. Most people using private school are incredibly comfortable. Although perhaps it helps that I still volunteer with people who are really struggling to even feed themselves and pay their bills

They likely haven’t sent it to the decent parents as they know they’d be appalled.

I haven’t been sent the email either and I’ve not heard anyone else say they have in real life. Some people have shared the Change petition but I haven’t seen anything else.

If the s actually true, the actual effect would be that the parents who genuinely can't afford fee increases and have to move their children won't get offered a place at their local school.

And also make everyone involved think very poorly of those parents who send their children to independent schools.

I like to think that most people would have both more decency and more sense.

Anyone doing that is a shitty fucker. Assholes.

Bullshit posturing ffs

My child doesn't even have a school space for September you bunch of twats will make it even worse

There is capacity in the state sector (just not so much in the outstanding schools). This will not cause panic.

School place allocations for September have already been done and places are secured.

Anyone applying now would be an in-year transfer and allocated to their closest school with spaces. In our county there are school places available at the less popular secondary schools and most of the primaries due to falling birth rates. Schools would be glad of the extra pupils as it would secure them much needed funding.

It is a daft idea that wouldn’t achieve anything.

Ok so first off if people did this as some sort of act of civil disobedience it’s not as simple as ‘request a school place’, it’s more like ‘go through the process of an in year transfer’. Secondly, those taking the hassle of allocating places are not the teachers in the first instance.

Oh and it’s a shitty thing to do, just pay the ££

What do you mean? Who is taking a swipe at which group of children? It does not come over very well when people suggest that their child will be damaged by having to not go to a posh school any more. It’s the epitome of a first world problem when a lot of others in the UK can’t afford food and have to use food banks.