Private Education on average income? Anyone else?

Lunar_Eclipse

MrsE wrote: »

They may live a frugal lifestyle because they have high outgoings, but they are still wealthy they do have a high income, how they choose to spend it is their choice, you cannot say they not wealthy on 100k per annum because they have 4 children at fee paying schools.

I fully understand and appreciate your point, although personally I interpret high income and wealthy to be quite different things (and hugely dependent on where you live; I live in an area where 3 bed semis cost 650k, in other towns they could be 150k)

My point however was not whether an income of 100k made a family wealthy or not. I was trying to show how a family in that situation, and I fully accept they have a lot more money in which to choose how they spend than average, are not necessarily living a posh lifestyle as was mentioned about 'private schools being full of rich kids' or similar. They would be eating Tesco brand baked beans like the rest of us, and not experiencing ponies, flash cars and annual skiing holidays.

This hypothetical family earning 100k is not us by the way. I'm playing devil's advocate; my children are in the local state school and we do not ski, have ponies or flash cars.

JC9297

MrsE wrote: »

They may live a frugal lifestyle because they have high outgoings, but they are still wealthy they do have a high income, how they choose to spend it is their choice, you cannot say they not wealthy on 100k per annum because they have 4 children at fee paying schools.



I hardly think they very few who get free private education are "people who put education at the very top of their priorities as a family".
Would you say people who get free motibility cars on disability/sick benefits are "people who put the latests in new car safety at the very top of their priorities as a family"?
No, they are (like the family in free private-public school education) taking advantage of a freebie.

Slightly off topic but people who have motability cars are choosing to use their high rate mobility allowance to pay for the use of the car, they are not a freebie, if they did not have the car they would have more money in the bank (rather like the family who choose to spend their income on school fees).