Being charged private school fees for not attending

laurel7172

A term's notice is standard-I'd be surprised if you could get out of it.

I don't suppose you filled in the forms for local schools a year ago, did you? Because all the best schools will be full by now. Why not send your child to the private school for one term while waiting for a place in a preferred school to come up? It would be less disruptive (if s/he has being going to nursery with the children there) than putting them in any state school with a place and moving them again within months.

Good luck.

Summertime33

Thank you to all who replied even FS !!!!!! What a happy man you are !!!!! We are by no means rich we just wanted to try and give our son a good education. We did not know that my husband would be losing his job when we applied, which reluctatly gave us no other option but to send him to a state school, which we also pay for !!!!

On a brighter side the money we are saving will pay for the fuel in our Bugatti Veyron Sport!

qetu1357

Suspect you will have to pay a term's notice, common for private schools, and if you don't pay you they may sue and add legal costs as well.

But...............if the school manages to get another kid to replace yours are they legally allowed to charge a term's fee as the school hasn't actually lost the income?

Unfair contract/ credit card charges?

dzug1

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Sorry, I am of the belief that if you can afford a private education, why should a state school take your child because you are now in a different situation. You cannot opt out, then opt in

Yes you can.

You may believe that you shouldn't be able to, but that's your opinion, not reality.

Your typo corrected free of charge:D

Freddie_Snowbits

I am glad that OP can make rash decisions because of a threat of redundancy. What would happen if OH actually was amde redundeant, and then got a job within a few weeks, not only have they lost the fees, but it would be dificult to get back in at the school!

Then the mess with moving the child.

As I said before, you cannot opt out, then in. In all this no thought is given to the child, except that in a rash decision, they're pulled.

fluffnutter

Now Freddie likes to get things going on occasion... but he's got a point. Not that I'm saying this is what the OP is doing, but you can't whip kids in and out of fee-paying school depending on how much spare cash you've got knocking about! Commit to it and find the money, or send them to state school.

qetu1357

Now I love planning and I don't like taking undue risks, but if you never take any risks you may find you will never do anything.

To fund just one child in private education from 4 to 18 will cost around £175k.

So to the point of commiting to it, how many people are that confident that they will be still in employment in 14 years time or have £175k to hand?

lucylucky

And you can of course take kids out of fee paying schools and put them into state schools.

Happens all the time.

As does the reverse, so saying it is not possible is incorrect.

Freddie_Snowbits

I am just glad that some are thinking of the child, not the parents greed and rashness. Just as I am rash in my retorts on the said, the child's welfare comes first.

fluffnutter

qetu1357 wrote: »

So to the point of commiting to it, how many people are that confident that they will be still in employment in 14 years time or have £175k to hand?

Precisely. Send the horrors to state school and be done with it.