'Why I send my child to a private school' Guardian piece...

[PollyParanoia]

Is there no thread on it? Surely there must be.
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/23/why-send-child-to-private-school here
It's just so badly written with lots of fatuous unsupported statements. She's been so suckered by that clever thing that private nurseries do to encourage parents to sign up until 11. Our local one makes the nursery children buy and wear the uniform in the pre-reception year. Especially if the uniform has an expensive boater as hers does (I always notice that the most prestigious schools around us have the least pretentious uniform).
And as for 'Katy's exceeding national expectations', well, a good section of children in a state school will do the same, doh, as you'd know if you really were an educational expert.
And that bit about how lots of children would thrive in a non-academic environment/technical school. But not her child of course.
Oh and she lives in Kent so I think we know the answer to her point about her going private if she's not happy with the secondary school provision.

Aboutlastnight, the point was that an awful lot of people need after-school clubs etc, and struggle with the holidays, and that some people are turning to the private sector to help with this, where state help isn't provided in their area.

I was agreeing with PastSellByDate that the set-up needs to evolve to help all parents with this (private and state), and that some parents may well be encouraged to stay in the state sector rather than going private if their needs are met there.

However hard you try, I am 100% certain that what I would get if I paid someone else to look after my children while I went out to work would not be of the quality that I could provide by staying at home and looking after my children, myself.

And the same comment applies to before and after-school care when my children are at primary school age. I would quite like my own children to get the benefit of my education, not just my employer.

Frankly at the moment my mortgage is getting the benefit of my education!

In other words, most people will always have to make huge compromises, rather than remotely get what they want for their children.

her child is in private school because she can afford it. what a load of rubbish.