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Realistically, is she being discriminated against, by not getting a higher standard of education than anyone else who went to the local authority school?

I suspect that that school will have had a number of children who are gifted in one way or another. Yet the school isn't expected to pander to each childs specific needs, just to provide education according to the legislated standards. Now if there was an Ofsted inspection, that said the school was not meeting that standard, there would be a case to answer perhaps. Of course the Education Authority should be striving at all times to provide the best education standards it can. Maybe the real answer is that for the classes at which she is exceptionally good, she should be moved to a year or two above her age group.

I really can't see why anyone should be able, of right, to get a better education than others, however nice and idealistic it should be, simply because they have more marbles than those others, yet that is what is being argued for.

Disability legislation intends to try and help those less, not more, fortunate to have some form of quality of life, and thus there is special needs education entitlements. However lots of local authorities are trying, as far a practical to do this within the existing school systems, rather than in special schools, simply to reduce the exclusion effect, and thus again reduce discrimination. The father however by seeking an eletist private education could be argued to be adding to discrimination of his daughter by excluding her from a standard school environmnet?