Do you think private schools give your children a advantage in life ?

[mistybear]

I am thinking of going back to work full time so I can send my dd to a private secondary school. My husband and I keep going around in circles of whether or not there is any advantage to a private education. We are not rich hence having to work full time to afford it and this is one of the questions, will having parents that are not that well off be a massive problem being at private school, we are not in London and the area we live in is not massively affluent. One of the reasons I keep thinking about it is that the people I have as friends and some of my family that have been privately educated are doing well and more importantly doing a job they wanted to do. My dd is hardworking and has already achieved her leaving school targets even though she is in year five, the state secondary schools around us are not the best but a couple are not too bad educational wise but all of them do not have clubs and sports that the private school has. She loves her violin, science and space also her ponies and she loves her warhammer !! she is also a only child x

Ah...that makes more sense.

Hakluyt - I am beginning to suspect you are going to object to every post I make on this thread.

I post that I visited schools when at uni to try and broaden access for state school kids - bad! I say clever children do best in exams - bad! I say bright state school kids can do well - wrong attitude.

Then I answer a specific request for info on a school (not actually named and only identifiable to those who already know it's less than positive reputation since that is how the poster described it) also bad.

Don't take it personally, wandymum, Hak disagrees with lots of us.