Private School Fee Reduction?

daska

My sister used to work at one of the very posh prep schools and the head there always said you got best value for money by moving to live next to a good state schools... It might cost a bit to move but often nothing like as much as the total bill. Remember the fees go up as the child gets older as well as going up by inflation (or more) and that you have to pay every other cost and you don't get any state help if things go wrong. I really struggled to keep DS1 and DSD at their primary school after I fell ill and had to give up work. I was very lucky in some senses as in DS1's final year I negotiated a 90% bursery for him, but only because they had spaces from other pupils moving on to public rather than state schools.

Savvy_Sue

Rikki wrote: »

Edit: You pay for all the exams too - GCSE's and A levels.

Also if your child turns out to need extra help of any kind, you'll be paying for that too, including any professional assessments for dyslexia, asperger's, etc etc etc. And some of them will need repeating every couple of years.

daska wrote: »

Remember the fees go up as the child gets older as well as going up by inflation (or more) and that you have to pay every other cost and you don't get any state help if things go wrong.

And the cost of uniform will go up too, through inflation and the need for larger sizes.

It really will go on and on and on. Plus it may not suit the child anyway! A colleague was telling me that her DH insisted that both their boys went to a local private secondary school, which one of them was VERY upset by. After a couple of years he worked out a comprehensive argument for why it would be better for him to move to the comprehensive (other than "I don't want to be separated from my friends!") He moved, and never looked back.

Mutter_2

pollypenny wrote: »

If the school is so good, you are in favour of privileged schooling for the few, and you can afford it, then pay for it.

That would seem to be the ethical thing to do.

If all children attending independent schools were put into state education, the system would not only collapse, but taxes would rise dramatically to pay for them.
Same could be applied to private health care.

If anything, a little tax relief would help, then maybe the class numbers in state schools would drop.

It is a myth that all parents who educate their children privately are well off. They choose to spend their money differently, that's all.