School fees!

[Halo Jones]

School uniforms from specified shops: possible financial kick back

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[DodgyAgent]

The best thing about private schooling is being able to tell everyone else where your kids are at school

If you are going to educate them privately then do it properly.

[Troll]

I did it for 3 sprogs
Put them through State for Primary school-to learn how to deal with the idiots, and then eye watering expensive Private (there goes the villa) until 18

Was it worth it? that's the great "what if" unknown but I paid my money and made my choice - rant at the time was that parents should be given a voucher for child's education that could be used for either State or Private education & I still believe this is the best way for education

Overall I'm pleased with the way they have turned out as people - polite well mannered & their academic achievements etc. but they also made many contacts with UK and International students that may help them in future years & it does appear (I know some will find this wrong) that the cachet of the school attended is already opening doors in Commerce

So good to be only paying Uni fees now!

[Mich the Tester]

The best thing about private schooling is being able to tell everyone else where your kids are at school

If you are going to educate them privately then do it properly.

Josh Barrie: The Round Robin: Annual Middle Class Brag Fest

[Doggy Styles]

Josh Barrie: The Round Robin: Annual Middle Class Brag Fest

Mrs Styles is on the round-robin circuit. I cringe but she'll never stop - some idiot once wrote back saying she enjoyed reading them.

[Old Hack]

Waste of money. Leading psychologists believe child's educational path is pretty much made by the time they're 6.

Most of the top state schools stream now as well with a gifted and talented scheme, in which they identify kids in that category and educate them accordingly. The proper private schools are much closer to £15k a year now, just for tuition, then there are the trips, which in a friends school last year was america and skiing in France, both £3k trips, then books, uniform, and a whole other vast array of costly items. Friend, who is a director at an F1 company, said if his wife wasn't a teacher, he couldn't afford it.

Remember, that's net. 3 kids and you've quickly got to earn, in excess, of £150k just to put them through school, although most offer small discounts for multiple kids in the same school.

I push my kids and make sure I put £6k in their ISA's/Savings each year. The friends who have kids at private school don't live the kind of life they could, and haven't saved any money for their kids uni education, spunking it all on their pre uni education.

I think it's insane.

I think I should add, that being mere IT Consultants, we're also very much at the bottom of the social structure of the schools as well; if you think you've a few bob, wait until you get to see the kids dropped off.

[DodgyAgent]

Waste of money. Leading psychologists believe child's educational path is pretty much made by the time they're 6.

Most of the top state schools stream now as well with a gifted and talented scheme, in which they identify kids in that category and educate them accordingly. The proper private schools are much closer to £15k a year now, just for tuition, then there are the trips, which in a friends school last year was america and skiing in France, both £3k trips, then books, uniform, and a whole other vast array of costly items. Friend, who is a director at an F1 company, said if his wife wasn't a teacher, he couldn't afford it.

Remember, that's net. 3 kids and you've quickly got to earn, in excess, of £150k just to put them through school, although most offer small discounts for multiple kids in the same school.

I push my kids and make sure I put £6k in their ISA's/Savings each year. The friends who have kids at private school don't live the kind of life they could, and haven't saved any money for their kids uni education, spunking it all on their pre uni education.

I think it's insane,

You may think its insane but where it really counts is when we public school boys can look down at the poor plebs who had to go to a state school. Furthermore it does not matter if we are thick or mess up our education because our public school friends and families all have senior jobs and through our connections we wont be out of work.

[doodab]

we need a thread for Cukers with their brain in their underpants!

That would suggest we need a thread for CUKkers that don't have their brain in their underpants. That seems a bit far fetched.

[kevpuk]

Waste of money. Leading psychologists believe child's educational path is pretty much made by the time they're 6.

Most of the top state schools stream now as well with a gifted and talented scheme, in which they identify kids in that category and educate them accordingly. The proper private schools are much closer to £15k a year now, just for tuition, then there are the trips, which in a friends school last year was america and skiing in France, both £3k trips, then books, uniform, and a whole other vast array of costly items. Friend, who is a director at an F1 company, said if his wife wasn't a teacher, he couldn't afford it.

Remember, that's net. 3 kids and you've quickly got to earn, in excess, of £150k just to put them through school, although most offer small discounts for multiple kids in the same school.

I push my kids and make sure I put £6k in their ISA's/Savings each year. The friends who have kids at private school don't live the kind of life they could, and haven't saved any money for their kids uni education, spunking it all on their pre uni education.

I think it's insane,

Well, I went to boarding school from 11-16, as did my brother, and my sister went to a non-boarding private school.
Costs were huge, not that I understood it fully, but parents remortgaged house and cut back on everything......and we had to sit all manner of exams for things like Assisted Place Scheme, Bursary's and the like - all in all, I think this all contributed to close to 65% of the basic fees. That said, we all had a great education and really enjoyed school.....

But, for me, it has not really influenced my later life tangibly - actually ended up getting more or less kicked out as I had discovered smoking, drinking, girls and so on - except for perhaps in the early days of having a posh school on my fledgling CV. No A-levels or Uni, but doors opened a creak on the strength of the school name....

Still, I can't see we would send our children to a private school, but would not be averse to it in principle.

[Old Hack]

You may think its insane but where it really counts is when we public school boys can look down at the poor plebs who had to go to a state school. Furthermore it does not matter if we are thick or mess up our education because our public school friends and families all have senior jobs and through our connections we wont be out of work.

An old Hackneyed Myth unfortunately...