Reply to: Independent schools under threat from Liebour

[oracleslave]

make mine a pint of what Dow's drinking please barman

Milan.

Me too. Have had that thought from a few posts today.

[milanbenes]

make mine a pint of what Dow's drinking please barman

Milan.

[oracleslave]

It's also cheaper oop north.

A best-in-country school oop North, such as Leeds Grammar, will be quite substantially cheaper than say Royal Guildford Grammar. Both schools are pretty much top 50 in all schools, but LGS is £9,225/year, and RGS is £11,757/year.

I would gladly pay the difference to be in Guildford as opposed to Leeds.

[dude69]

There is no rule of thumb. For a junior, average fees are £ 3k a term, roughly £ 1k a month. For a senior, this can go up to £ 6k a term (OK, Eton etc charge more), but this has nothing to do with the child's ability. A lot of bursaries apply, so once you are through with the exam, you may end up paying next to nothing depending on siblings, performance etc. This is a myth, ie that you have to pay a lot, cultivated by the socialists and unfortunately believed by a lot of people like our friend MB.

It's also cheaper oop north.

A best-in-country school oop North, such as Leeds Grammar, will be quite substantially cheaper than say Royal Guildford Grammar. Both schools are pretty much top 50 in all schools, but LGS is £9,225/year, and RGS is £11,757/year.

[gordonbrown]

Furthermore, in addition to the fees paid for your child, you are also paying for the state education of another child through your taxation. This is fair.

[dude69]

troll how much are your children's school fees ?

if you're paying less than 1k gbp per month per child you're wasting your time and may as well get them into the best comp in your area

that's a general rule of thumb

Milan.

I pay £7k/year, but my son is 5 (prices rise with age, especially at age 6).

The difference is day and night against the previous state school, he's made so much more progress, gets attention for his needs (no special needs, just catch-up work because state schools teach less to children than he would have got had he started in reception at private).

Definitely worth it, even at primary level. He has more facilities, for art (pottery kiln, properly equipped rooms), science (lab with bunsen burners), sport (cricket pitch, swimming pool, football pitch, shale hockey pitch, tennis courts, adventure playground), and more teaching (Latin, French, Greek, and proper history) than most state SECONDARY schools.

Not to mention that his class is half the size of state, he gets one-to-one teaching on Fridays, and he has specialist teachers for different subjects.

The problem is that although obviously they get more dough than state and can provide better ratios, better facilities, where they really get their edge is that they depend on the parents to actually give a fig about their kids' education, to work with them and stuff.

In the state school they knew many parents don't care, and had no expectations of the parents.

[Dow Jones]

Doesn't work like this

There is no rule of thumb. For a junior, average fees are £ 3k a term, roughly £ 1k a month. For a senior, this can go up to £ 6k a term (OK, Eton etc charge more), but this has nothing to do with the child's ability. A lot of bursaries apply, so once you are through with the exam, you may end up paying next to nothing depending on siblings, performance etc. This is a myth, ie that you have to pay a lot, cultivated by the socialists and unfortunately believed by a lot of people like our friend MB.

[milanbenes]

troll how much are your children's school fees ?

if you're paying less than 1k gbp per month per child you're wasting your time and may as well get them into the best comp in your area

that's a general rule of thumb

Milan.

[milanbenes]

problem with the private schools is,

you have the numpty cheap ones which are no better and worse than the good comps and then you have the good private schools which the majority of parents cannot afford to send their children to anyway

which is best, the cheap private school which is crap or getting your children into a good comp ?


Milan.

[Troll]

troll I went to a [village] Comprehensive, very nice it was too Milan.

Excellent

[milanbenes]

troll I went to a [village] Comprehensive, very nice it was too

Milan.

[Troll]

the impression I got, from the Independent Schools Statement, was that they are not too worried as pretty much all private schools offer bursaries, hardship funds, etc., and this would be sufficient to satisfy the requirements.

... but the problem is that now Labour has a stick to bash them with & it really depends how independent the Charity Commission is from political interference.

Who selects the CC? can’t be ar5ed to google

[dude69]

the impression I got, from the Independent Schools Council Statement, was that they are not too worried as pretty much all private schools offer bursaries, hardship funds, etc., and this would be sufficient to satisfy the requirements.

[Troll]

look lads,

does it really matter

flip's sake, what really matters is the attitude of the parents

state school comprehensive down the road or the most expensive private school if the parents aren't doing their part the child is still going to be a duffer

Milan.

I believe Mr Milan that the issue is that in a private skewel the parents actually give more of a damn than those in comps because it is costing an arm & a leg to send them there.

Meanwhile the Pikey family see it as a birthright that attendance & good behaviour is optional

...also between you and me, some of the people posting on this board went to comps... & it's bleedin obvious who they are innit!

[milanbenes]

look lads,

does it really matter

feck's sake, what really matters is the attitude of the parents

state school comprehensive down the road or the most expensive private school if the parents aren't doing their part the child is still going to be a duffer

Milan.