Play date with mum who agrees with education tax

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Please let me know if I’m overreacting. I recently overheard a new mum at school talking about a local private school closing down due to the education tax and how this is somehow a good thing. She’s now invited my DD for a play date, would you accept?

Please can you explain a little more about your thinking here op?

You're over reacting

If you expect to agree with the political views of every parent who your DC plays with then your DC won't get to play with anyone.

I'm unsure why you think you need to have common political views with another parent before agreeing a play date.

Why wouldn't you let your daughter play with her child?

What's your child's view on the "education tax"?

I think private education is ethically indefensible and should be dismantled asap. It’s hardly a wildly unusual view.

It wouldn’t occur to me not to let my child go in a play date with a child whose parents t thought differently, though.

Don't be so silly

It depends - if you want to curate your child's social circle to only include people who agree with you on specific political issues, then decline. But if the parents are nice and your child wants to be their child's friend (despite your policy-making differences) then accept and use it as an opportunity for your child see how other people live their lives in different and unfathomable ways...

This

Lots and lots and lots of people believe that private education entrenches inequality and reinforces the class system OP.

I don’t get why you wouldn’t?

lots of people think the change is good. It doesn’t turn us into monsters!

Education tax!?! 😂😂

Christ, with that sort of language you are lucky anyone wants a play date with your kids. She might change her mind if she hears you saying it.

Private schools are businesses. Businesses pay VAT. Their charging tariffs are a business decision and being a customer is a value decision.

Thinking that choosing to not take the state option exempts the businesses you chose from tax is an odd logical leap, but trying to position it as education tax when other educational businesses who don’t have the private school loophole already pay VAT is a GB News style fallacy.

It gets especially problematic when they get to UNI
They mix with people who's parents may hold all sorts of "views"
<shudder>

My DD’s best friend’s family are fans of Donald Trump. Their 6 year old hasn’t expressed an opinion either way, so I’ll probably let her continue to call round for play dates - at least, until she’s of voting age.

It's hardly as if she's just declared she's a Nazis sympathiser. Do you never disagree with friends and associates on various points of law or politics?

Private education, private healthcare, private planes, better holidays, bigger houses. Some people have more, some people have less. ‘Twas ever thus. Communism doesn’t work. Socialism doesn’t work. Sadly some people can’t ever get over the perceived injustice.

No reason to not let your child have a play date with hers 🤷‍♀️

If it made my child happy to play with her child then fine people have opinions on everything nowadays not going to stop my child attending a play date they enjoy this is no big problem in my opinion.

The only relevant question here should be are the children friends?

What do you thinks going to happen? Do you think your dd is at more risk or harm because she supports the education tax?
im sure it won’t even come up on the play date

Are you worried about exposing your children to political views that are different to your own? If so, best to decline the invite as other perspectives do make it a lot trickier to brainwash your children into the exact same beliefs that you hold.

Where does she stand on cream or jam first on the scone?

I’ll take “things that never happened for 10, please, Matthew”

The play date is between the children not the adults.

Are your family circumstances very different where it might make a difference?

Eh? Yes of course, if my kid was keen. I definitely don’t agree with the political beliefs of all their friend’s parents and some of them probably don’t agree with mine. Not a biggie!