going private . . .

[Mich the Tester]

In the private system your thick kid can still get a good education through which he/she can uncover and develop other non academic talents,

[DodgyAgent]

I suppose someone will argue pushing and shoving up the backsides of other blokes can be described as "talent"

[Mich the Tester]

I suppose someone will argue pushing and shoving up the backsides of other blokes can be described as "talent"

I am a multitalented individual. I can throw things too.

[DodgyAgent]

I am a multitalented individual. I can throw things too.

Punches?

[Mich the Tester]

Punches?

Only against the French.

[Pondlife]

Punches?

Parties and tantrums?

[shaunbhoy]

In the private system your thick kid can still get a good education through which he/she can uncover and develop other non academic talents. And should it all go pete tong, they can always become an agent, and immorally live off the back of others like a giant social leech!

FTFY

[DodgyAgent]

FTFY

We agents perform a great social service in giving hope to everyone

[Freamon]

Whatever reason one sends one's child to public school the facts remain that private education is overall far better for educating children than state schools. facilities are better, extra curricula activities are better and the fact that teachers can be sacked in the private sector much more easily than in the public sector alone suggests that the teaching is better. There are always exceptions but one thick and wealthy hooray henry and one aspiring Oxford educated oik do not change the fact.

Pretty much none of that is true. Sacking a teacher from a private school is pretty difficult, they're still unionised etc. Teachers rarely get sacked from any school, but their lives are made uncomfortable to the point where they choose to leave - this happens regularly in state schools. Facilities in state schools are better than you'd imagine, they've spent vast sums on IT etc in the last 10 years. Private schools have to balance the books, which is why at the moment they're spending no money on facilities and making teachers redundant.

[shaunbhoy]

Facilities in state schools are better than you'd imagine, they've spent vast sums on IT etc in the last 10 years.

WFS

Where I live, people are leaving the Grammar School in Torquay to rejoin the local Community School as the facilities are far superior.