It's a huge lot easier to pay than all this fussing over tape measures and buying expensive houses to be in catchments only to find they change the rules though.... And paying makes a massive different. 6% of children go to private schools and 50% of those at Oxford and the good universities are from those private schools.
What the state sector needs to do is emulate the private sector. It needs better meals, stricter rules, more and better uniform, it needs lots of selection but also very small classes for the thicker children.
What I think the private schools do over the state even the very very very best state grammrs of which there are few, is educate the whole person. They limit numbers of GCSEs, they teach you about things taht are well off syllabus, they give you your accent (although perhaps not at NLCS and by the way I'd never mention a school my child was at - she has left there now although not without a life long lacrosse passion but that could equally have been a passion for any of the other hobbies to which you get exposed at good private schools which are better than state schools even the best state grammars).
So I suppose not only have I enjoyed the lakes (and we have by the way had lovely family sailing holidays and one daughter spent summers working for a sailing company in the EU and Caribbean solely because of that sailing experience)...But also paid to have them segregated by IQ from less clever children and also from children from poorer homes. This is only what the state parents do on this thread but they do it in an underhand dishonest way and seek schools which are middle class for brighter children. As a tax payer who doesn't get anything out of state schools I think those using them should just go in a lottery and abolish all faith schools but also because children work better when with those of the same IQ in the class ensure you get enough setting even aged 5 which in effect you buy when you get a place for a clever child in the private sector at age 5 or enough total segregation by IQ in grammar, technical colleges or whatever.
Anyway, all good fun and if as a woman you give yourself the money and power to have choice in these matters you benefit your chidlren and yes you do benefit a child by earning lots of money as a woman. you can see the chidlren more because you pay a cleaner, you have power and influence and you determine your working day. this is what money buys you. I recommend it. Go forth and earn it and thereby benefit your children. And now I'm off to put children to bed because I do like to spend reasonable amounts of time with them even in year 25 as a mother and hopefully when the twins stop having a bed time I might by then have a grandchild.