If the state school sector is well funded there’s no need for your children to be privately educated.
Just in the way that income dictates what kind of car someone can drive, or how large a house they can live in, income will dictate whether your children can go to private school or not. I don’t really see why everybody else should be at disadvantage in terms of private schools being run like charities and therefore not liable for appropriate taxes. You can either afford private education or you can’t and it sounds like with a fairer system in place that some will not be able to anymore, so will have to send their children to a local school like most people do. On a temporary basis I feel for the children affected but there are also other children who arguably need our sympathy more.
Of all the policies etc and how they will affect people, It’s pretty hard to be honest to feel sympathy about something like this, when there are people who can’t afford to feed and clothe their children well, regardless of how hard they are working.
If they were being completely honest, most people send their children to private schools, not just because the quality of the education is better (though not always. My husband was privately educated and his education was actually pretty poor. I did much better at the state comprehensive round the corner from where he lived!), but because of the other social advantages in terms of mixing with children whose parents and families have money and influence which gives them a leg up in many ways as well as the confidence etc.
And I’m not basing this on assumption, several of my close friends have children at private schools and they have told me quite plainly that this is the real reason that they sent them there. They are aware that many of the state schools in our area get comparable Exam results. But as we all know in life, it’s not what you know it’s who you know a lot of the time. And that is what they are paying for.
so I approve of this policy, and once it all shakes out the country and young people of the uk as a whole will be better off - which gets my vote 💪🏻
an interesting point, I read about this recently too, is that for parents who have to take their children out of private education, the government will, in all likelihood still make more money in VAT payments, because the money that was been spent on school fees will now be spent on other vegetables goods and services.