The ridiculous hyperbole and catastrophic thinking here are making you sound unhinged and a bit like a Russian bot trying to stir up division. Had you been drinking when you typed this?
We chose private education until we moved, and I feel very confident that this 20% hike will be easily assimilated:
For schools;
Some of it will be regained in claiming back VAT on some costs.
Some of it can be saved by making cuts - Our DC old school have been buying up property and expanding provision that they didn’t necessarily need. They have so many specialist teachers (specific to specific sports and arts).
They could make more money by offering places in after school clubs to other children.
They could stop including lunch in the price and charge for it (with the option of bringing in packed lunch)
They could charge to hire out the many facilities (lovely old building with excellent catering and a chapel is ripe for weekend weddings)
Parents can;
Cut down on (in most cases) or stop having holidays.
downgrade their cars (all had at least two)
Sell one of their properties (or downsize/remortgage if they only have one)
Ask grandparents for help.
Sell an asset or two (most had expensive jewellery, assets like boats, sports equipment, etc)
Shift from Waitrose to Aldi
Eat out less.
Mother could up her hours or start working - many didn’t need to work at all.
Give up Country club/Sports club membership
Take out a loan
Sell some shares
Go for a promotion/expand the business.
Sack the cleaner/gardener
Wash and groom their own dog.
Have fewer hair/nail appointments
Take on some shifts as an Uber driver or Tesco delivery driver.
Move home to a smaller house or cheaper area (all lived in the more expensive areas, many had very large houses, with way more room than actually needed).
I mean I could go on. Basically there are loads of ways the school could save or make more money and loads of ways the parents could save or make more money.
I have seen so many posts on here when people are seriously struggling to pay for basics where there are posts saying they need to go for a better job, move house to a new area etc. The families using private education are WAY more resourced to find savings or increase income.
If those running and using private education facilities can’t find a way to adapt to a 20% rise then I’d be very surprised and it would certainly question the argument that these people are the people who we rely on to bring in wealth to society and add so much value.
My experience is that most parents were very savvy with money and the school was very well run by excellent people so I’m sure they will cope just fine.
We are NOT going to see swathes of these kids needing state education or masses of these schools closing. It’s just not going to happen. I will eat my hat if that does happen and you can hold me to that!