Education taxers in family/close friends

[JamesDad2]

Do any parents with DC at private school have education taxers in their family (or close friends)?

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be rude.

I’d assume that being challenged on ignorance would feel like rudeness to those who support taxing education.

I'm not ignorant, I just disagree with you.

No. I've got family who are Tory state school /NHS trashers though. They were brexiters too.

Stating education is a luxury could actually be the definition of ignorance.

I would actually be in favour of waiving the VAT on fees for children of people who start these threads. Poor fuckers have the odds stacked against them.

I don't know what they were teaching when you were sent to private school, but the major point of ignorance in this thread so far has been the failure of your reading comprehension, because nobody has said that.

Stating that private education is not a luxury could be considered ignorant.

I didn’t go to private school, but I am able to read and several people have said that they support taxing education because it’s a luxury. One person described themselves as a luxury education taxer.

OP you still haven't said what the problem is with your family member.

Nobody has said that. Nobody. People have said that private education is a luxury.

You are clearly on a wind up.

I think the OP wanted another labour bashing thread but it's not gone their way

Yes any other education that that provided by the state is a luxury, you got me. Forgive my ignorance.

Ironic post talking about ignorance.

There was me thinking surely after the many threads in 2024 the subject on MN must surely be exhausted and no one has anything new to add.

And yet here you are with “education taxer”, the best one yet. Thank you for the laugh and creativity OP

Just be clear as we’re getting nowhere here, you consider any education not provided by the public sector to be a luxury?

There’s been a bit of a lull as the ISC legal action can’t start until Feb, so doing my bit for MN advertising revenue in the meantime. Can’t take credit for the education taxer unfortunately.

You think those in favour of taxing private education are Brexiteers?! Very much not the case in my social circle 🙄

Agreed. Most people in my social circle voted Remain and were in favour of taking away the charity status of private schools.

I’d put people who want to tax education in the bracket of uneducated, which was also the general trend with Brexit voters. Couple that with the fact that Brexit actually made education tax possible then I think it’s a reasonable assumption.

Do you think everyone with a different viewpoint to your own is uneducated?

Yeah I would've thought there's a pretty high correlation between voting Remain and being in favour of taxing private school fees.

Anyway OP, still waiting for your actual dilemma. I'm sure you do have one and you're not just stirring.

The charity status is unchanged. Labour have made education services vatable.

From an educational point of view, people who pay for a private education are not necessarily getting what they think they're paying for.

My experience at uni was that those who dropped out of certain courses after first year tended to be private school boys and girls who couldn't cope without spoon feeding.

Years later, I'm aware that parents at some of the private schools in Edinburgh are having to pay for top-up tuition (often from teachers whose main post is in a state school) in order to get their children through certain exams.

They'd have been better off sending their children to a state school and paying extra for tuition (if required) and extra-curriculars.

Only private school fees have been made vatable, thus far - so far as I'm aware.