Private or State for your own kids?

[Bambambini]

Not a teacher but curious how teachers really feel about this. I've chosen state for my kids - one in yr 10 and one in yr 7. We can afford private but i was really torn and there's none in our town so worried about kids having a slightly longer day on the bus and having no friends locally.

As teachers who really have much more insight to education. Would you choose private or state if you had the choice forvyour own kids and cost wasn't an issue. No grammars here so local schools are very much a mix of abilities and backgrounds.

Worrying that i made the wrong decision, husband was for private.

Yes. Completely and utterly woeful.

The spending cuts mean state schools are starved of resources.
You couldn't teach a dog to jump through a hoop on the sums proposed.

Coupled with the teacher shortage and the new ill thought through qualifications, it's a perfect storm that woeful barely begins to describe.

To add a bit of balance, my DC went to a (very swanky) prep school that was, behind all the smoke and mirrors when they actually got there, completely and utterly woeful. No other way to describe it. The distinction should be between good school and bad school, not state and private. (And, to be totally fair, what's a great school for one child is possibly an awful school which fails another.)

That's true.

But I can't see how any state schools, no matter how well run or how supportive the parent body are going to make it work going forward.

The sums proposed are ridiculous.

SLT no matter how good are not alchemists.

Oh well, I suppose it's only the 8% at 'indies' who are going to make it through then. Let's just give up and let them carry on running things. They're doing a marvellous job.

The funding cuts are awful and if the bright and the beautiful couldn't buy themselves out, no government would dare implement them.

We don't teach dogs, we teach children. And some of them even learn stuff.

Our school is gaining money as we've always been underfunded. Not sure how much.