Private school fees (merged)

Dick_here

meester wrote: »

My wife is foreign.

Is she Polish ?

meester

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

Hi

Unfortunately, not everyone has money.:o So if you go to Eton you can have your art teacher do your coursework *cough* for you but this option is closed to nearly all of us.

Rubbish.

If your children are able and ambitious, they could try to become a King's Scholar. This is for the most able children, 14 a year. If you don't have money, they will pay 100% of your fees. An opportunity to attend Eton would be viewed with awe in any other country, but not in inverse snobbish Britain.

Plenty of concerned parents make the most of what they and their children have got rather than going around with chips on their shoulder about the rich.

posh*spice

!!!!!!_here wrote: »

Yet they still manage to turn out kids who consistently score more highly in exams. :rolleyes:

They don't. That's the point - it's background that matters not the school. A kid with the right background will achieve well in either sector.

posh*spice

meester wrote: »

chips on their shoulder about the rich.

Jees why does it always come down to "chips on their shoulders" I can afford to send my children to a private school. I don't have a chip on my shoulder - nor does anyone else on here as far as I can see.

meester

!!!!!!_here wrote: »

Is she Polish ?

nope. But there were a lot of Polish kids newly arrived at the school

meester

posh*spice wrote: »

Jees why does it always come down to "chips on their shoulders" I can afford to send my children to a private school. I don't have a chip on my shoulder - nor does anyone else on here as far as I can see.

BACKFRMTHEEDGE does from his/her posts about the rich destroying the poor and it being impossible for poor people to succeed and so on.

meester

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

If the ops own private education was so great and "worth the money", why is she not in the position to easily afford the fees for one little girl's private primary school? Ummm let me think, would that be because her own education wasn't actually worth the money:rolleyes:

How incredibly rude. You have no idea the OP's personal circumstances, skills, job or anything else, or whether the OP has pursued a lucrative enough career.

In any case the OP clearly can afford private education but was asking for advice on budgeting and planning for it. Sensible thing to do rather than finding 3 years in that you have no money.

posh*spice

meester wrote: »

BACKFRMTHEEDGE does from his/her posts about the rich destroying the poor and it being impossible for poor people to succeed and so on.

I took it that they the poster does not agree with private education. I don't see why this means they have a chip on their shoulder Do you think that people can only reach the conclusion that a private education system produces an unjust outcome from a position of jealousy? I think probably many people do disagree with the existance of a private sector and I very much doubt that they all have a chip on their shoulder.

meester

posh*spice wrote: »

I took it that they the poster does not agree with private education. I don't see why this means they have a chip on their shoulder Do you think that people can only reach the conclusion that a private education system produces an unjust outcome from a position of jealousy? I think probably many people do disagree with the existance of a private sector and I very much doubt that they all have a chip on their shoulder.

I never said that they did. I did however see a poster saying that the OP was a failure in life for not having so much money that school fees are a mere trifle and not worth planning for. This to me is going through life with a chip on your shoulder.

posh*spice

meester wrote: »

I never said that they did. I did however see a poster saying that the OP was a failure in life for not having so much money that school fees are a mere trifle and not worth planning for. This to me is going through life with a chip on your shoulder.

No I can't follow your logic here. BFTE may have personalised the issue but I don't see how this leads you to conclude that they have a chip on their shoulder. I think you just want to focus on the "chip on your shoulder" stuff because you don't actually want to examine whether private education is value for money. I think you may have offended a few Polish people by the way.:rolleyes: