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Originally Posted by Mr K
Cobblers. If they can afford private school, 20% more means little. There are spaces but might not be in the school they want. Welcome to everyone else's world. Kids deserve an equal chance that shouldn't depend on their parent's wealth.
The answer is to improves state schools, so folks don't feel the need to go private. That will require funding, the 20% extra is justified.
See JRM, the multi millionaire, is whinging about Eton increasing fees by 20% for his darlings ( and claiming he's 'middle class').
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jo...20pc-vat-fees/ |
It is cobblers for most, seem to remember an article that said between 3% & 7% of pupils would have to drop into state schools costing around £400 million but the money coming in would amount to £3 billion so seems like a no trainer to me, also these are business, their charitable status is an ancient anachronism that the schools themselves long since grew out of.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Very few (if any) of the Private Schools in Leeds have put 20% on from January - GSAL (the Grammar School At Leeds) are absorbing the cost this year (it’s a big school, with nearly 2,400 pupils), and Richmond House School (225 pupils), just down the road from us in Far Headingley, are putting them up by 8%.
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That's what a business would do...