Crunch raises state school demand

natalie1974

mewbie wrote: »

I wonder as the crunch hits what will go first? The kids education, or the 4 x 4?

Neither , and it wouldn't be my Subaru Impreza either !

natalie1974

Spendless wrote: »

Is her school day shorter than a state school would be? Otherwise that's one long day for her with 1.5 hour commute plus homework.

8.45am to 3.45pm , most of the local state schools are roughly 8.50-9am till 3pm-3.10pm . She does her homework prep in the car on the way back up the motorway to home . The school commute does take me approx 30-40 mins each way most days but this week has been a complete barstool ! Took me 5.5 hours just to do the morning school run the other day , bad accident on the motorway !

mewbie_2

natalie1974 wrote: »

Neither , and it wouldn't be my Subaru Impreza either !

I think for some parents they have achieved the lifestyle - the house, the flash cars, the holidays, and having the kids at private school is another step on their climb to whatever social acceptance they see as being important to them. Think footballers wives. They are however, at heart, still chavs.

So when the money starts to dry up I am not 100% that they will immediately forgo the £100 hairstyles, the holidays, the clothese, the 4 x 4 because that is their main measure of success. But education? I wonder.

SingleSue

My parents seriously considered sending my sister to a fee paying school after her normal primary school decided because she couldn't talk very well, then she obviously didn't need to be taught how to read!

I have always said that if I came into a decent amount of money, one of the first things I would do, is to arrange for them to go to a fee paying school because the class sizes are smaller, those children who are brighter seem to have more chances to prove it and it gives them a good set up to life.

In the meantime, I am happy with my middle and youngest boys schools - eldest's is another matter entirely.

natalie1974

mewbie wrote: »

I think for some parents they have achieved the lifestyle - the house, the flash cars, the holidays, and having the kids at private school is another step on their climb to whatever social acceptance they see as being important to them. Think footballers wives. They are however, at heart, still chavs.

So when the money starts to dry up I am not 100% that they will immediately forgo the £100 hairstyles, the holidays, the clothese, the 4 x 4 because that is their main measure of success. But education? I wonder.

I own my own villa so only pay for flights (only cost us £50k brand new) , I live in a 2 bed house, I wear Primark , my mate cuts my hair for me , my Impreza doesn't cost a fortune to run , unlike most people think they do and 5 years ago I was a single mum on income support . I have met someone , had another daughter , now got a son on the way , OH works bloody hard for his wages and I was working until I fell pregnant . I will go back to work after having this baby . I don't live life like a WAG , if I want my Tiffany bracelet or Links of London bracelet , like I have , I get them for Christmas or Birthday's . What is wrong with having nice things and EARNING them . I personally don't give a flying **** what anyone thinks of me , what is important is my kid's education and that is why I send them to private school .

natalie1974

mewbie wrote: »

They are however, at heart, still chavs.

Forgot to add , my eldest is called Chelsea , after my football team

olly300

michaels wrote: »

I find the whole private education issue very difficult - those who say their children have achieved the same grades in the state sector are missing the point. Rather like the institutionalised racism in this country it is the accent, contacts and life outlook that the public school provides that a state school never can.

It works for guys but doesn't work for women.

About 50% of the people I know where educated in the private sector.

michaels wrote: »

However it also seems unfair to me that those who send their children to public school first pay for the education in taxation and then again in fees - fairness would say that they should receive a credit for the amount that the state education would have cost. The problem though would be even worse negative selection - the more the best pupils are taken out of the state sector the worse the state schools become

Perfectly fair as there are people who don't have children and where not educated in this country but pay taxes. Should they get a rebate?

mewbie_2

natalie1974 wrote: »

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Hey Natalie - chill. I wasn't aiming my post at you. I don't know anything about you. I do however know about wannabee chav types who think that by sending their little thugs to private school they can achieve some kind of strange one upmanship amongst their peer group. It is easy to spot the newly rich Mewed types with their Audis and BMW's, but with no class or brains - and I suspect that when times get tough and choices have to be made they will be the ones who decide that the car is more important than the kids education.

PasturesNew

It'll be back to how it was in my day: 30-40 to a class and one teacher per class. No classroom assistants and no one-to-one stuff going on.

before_hollywood

natalie1974 wrote: »

I own my own villa so only pay for flights (only cost us £50k brand new) , I live in a 2 bed house, I wear Primark , my mate cuts my hair for me , my Impreza doesn't cost a fortune to run , unlike most people think they do and 5 years ago I was a single mum on income support . I have met someone , had another daughter , now got a son on the way , OH works bloody hard for his wages and I was working until I fell pregnant . I will go back to work after having this baby . I don't live life like a WAG , if I want my Tiffany bracelet or Links of London bracelet , like I have , I get them for Christmas or Birthday's . What is wrong with having nice things and EARNING them . I personally don't give a flying **** what anyone thinks of me , what is important is my kid's education and that is why I send them to private school .

ah right, i have to pass the local private school on my way to work and the number of designer clad perma tanned ladies who lunch in 4x4s that carve me up and sneer at me cos i drive a 6 1/2 year old sports hatch is unreal.

trouble is people like you are a minority at some of these schools