You can tell the people commenting have no grasp of who attends private schools or how burseries work.
We could do a whip round here.
As ever, most people just assume that people paying for private education are like the Rees Moggs. Toffs who have millions lying around in various investments and can swallow this tax rise with little to no consequence. The reality is that lots of people putting their children through a private education do so at a great sacrifice, and the consequent increase in fees will render it unaffordable.
The implementation of the policy is ill thought through. Taxing fees part way through the academic year is not ideal, and it will see a disruption for the anticipated 37,000 pupils (across the UK) who will need to be accommodated in the public sector. Moving schools in the middle of the year isn’t a great position to be in, putting pressure on the pupils and teachers. This is particularly true for students sitting/about to sit preliminary/mock exams. There will be families who can no longer afford private education who do not wish to disrupt their child’s schooling at a key time.
The tax rise would have been better introduced in August, allowing parents to move their children at a more natural point in the school year, and for the state sector to prepare itself accordingly. At least for pupils at key points (eg S4-S6 in Scotland, equivalents elsewhere).
Let me get my 🎻
Sooooo the schools can afford it?
Based on the headline only, have the families cut back on fags, takeaways, booze and sky TV?
The rich can still pay the Tory party and become a non-dom to avoid contributing to society in the form of taxation right… right?
Like when Boris couldn’t afford his nanny
The folk that send their kids to private school pay their taxes, which go towards funding the state school system. They are also choosing not to use state schools, lessening the burden on that system.
Additional taxation here doesn’t seem balanced.
Taking food off the table of the genuine needy
Oh no!
Anyway
Fuck the Murdochs and their shitty ‘papers’.
Risible from the increasingly shitty Times.
Do food banks offer organic Avocado Toast* or Starbuck Cappuccino’s to Edinburgh’s sadly distressed bourgeoisie? :'(
*actually, I had that for breakfast on Monday. :O
They should cancel their Netflix subscriptions and eat less avocado toast instead, surely?
Yet every time I walk past a private school I see parents and kids using smartphones, and eating avocado toast
They can’t be struggling that much
The amount of people here who still think private schools are full of Boris Johnstone types with unlimited money is crazy.
News flash, the millionaires of the world you hate don’t care about this extra ‘tax’.
This hits middle class parents on average incomes who can only just afford to send their kids to private school.
There can be many random reasons why they send their kids to fee paying schools such as kids being bullied at local school, sporting opportunities, nice house but in a rough area with a school that doesn’t even offer the subjects.
It sucks Labour have chosen to do this out of pure spite but it’s kind of summed up how badly them have fumbled being in government so far. Bad policies and bad reasoning.
I mean, fair enough. I get we’re meant to be shitting on Private schooling now and I understand the reasons why.
What I also know is that my sister-in-law grew up in a shite estate in Edinburgh and she got a free ride scholarship through private school. Her two siblings went to their local school. I imagine the fund is for the parents who aren’t paying the fees themselves. Maybe scholarships don’t cover VAT now or Funds are scrambling for permission to increase their support limit.
Either way or anyway, education disparity remains an issue
Unless you pay to send your child to a private school…. I’m afraid to say that nobody else gives a flying fuck and if you are after sympathy…. You ain’t going to find it from the average punter!
Sad really, people cheering and clapping as one of the few ladders that can lift working class people who want an academic career up into the professional classes is pulled up.
It started in the 70’s when Labour pulled the grant aided benefit from private schools, the idea being parents who sent their kids to private school saved the state the cost of educating their offspring so they shared the benefit.
Costs for private education were between 5 and 10% of the average wage, so more a lifestyle choice.
Funny thing is how the working class heroes rub their hands in glee that working class parents are no longer able to send their kids to a private school.
Still, it won’t affect wealthy people, they will still be able to afford the fees.
All this hate and trolling in the comments section. majority of people that send their kids to private are hard working people that aren’t the descendants of lords. It’s so easy to be unfocused and put your kids in a public school. Fill out the form sunshine.
Hardship fund 😂😂😂
Taxes aside, does the private school v state school system mean we effectively have school segregation based on class?
£12,000 for private school seems reasonable vs
Cost per prisoner – young offenders institution £32,000 approx
Fewer cappuccinos and avocado toast, lost the Netflix subscription and you should survive.
And once again, a thousand little violins join into a simple but elegant melody…
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😂😂😂😂😂
Spare a pound for a privileged education Sir?
“VAT raid” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Times is right-wing toilet paper.
You can tell the people commenting have no grasp of who attends private schools or how burseries work.
We could do a whip round here.
As ever, most people just assume that people paying for private education are like the Rees Moggs. Toffs who have millions lying around in various investments and can swallow this tax rise with little to no consequence. The reality is that lots of people putting their children through a private education do so at a great sacrifice, and the consequent increase in fees will render it unaffordable.
The implementation of the policy is ill thought through. Taxing fees part way through the academic year is not ideal, and it will see a disruption for the anticipated 37,000 pupils (across the UK) who will need to be accommodated in the public sector. Moving schools in the middle of the year isn’t a great position to be in, putting pressure on the pupils and teachers. This is particularly true for students sitting/about to sit preliminary/mock exams. There will be families who can no longer afford private education who do not wish to disrupt their child’s schooling at a key time.
The tax rise would have been better introduced in August, allowing parents to move their children at a more natural point in the school year, and for the state sector to prepare itself accordingly. At least for pupils at key points (eg S4-S6 in Scotland, equivalents elsewhere).
Let me get my 🎻
Sooooo the schools can afford it?
Based on the headline only, have the families cut back on fags, takeaways, booze and sky TV?
The rich can still pay the Tory party and become a non-dom to avoid contributing to society in the form of taxation right… right?
Like when Boris couldn’t afford his nanny
The folk that send their kids to private school pay their taxes, which go towards funding the state school system. They are also choosing not to use state schools, lessening the burden on that system.
Additional taxation here doesn’t seem balanced.
Taking food off the table of the genuine needy
Oh no!
Anyway
Fuck the Murdochs and their shitty ‘papers’.
Risible from the increasingly shitty Times.
Do food banks offer organic Avocado Toast* or Starbuck Cappuccino’s to Edinburgh’s sadly distressed bourgeoisie? :'(
*actually, I had that for breakfast on Monday. :O
They should cancel their Netflix subscriptions and eat less avocado toast instead, surely?
Yet every time I walk past a private school I see parents and kids using smartphones, and eating avocado toast
They can’t be struggling that much
The amount of people here who still think private schools are full of Boris Johnstone types with unlimited money is crazy.
News flash, the millionaires of the world you hate don’t care about this extra ‘tax’.
This hits middle class parents on average incomes who can only just afford to send their kids to private school.
There can be many random reasons why they send their kids to fee paying schools such as kids being bullied at local school, sporting opportunities, nice house but in a rough area with a school that doesn’t even offer the subjects.
It sucks Labour have chosen to do this out of pure spite but it’s kind of summed up how badly them have fumbled being in government so far. Bad policies and bad reasoning.
I mean, fair enough. I get we’re meant to be shitting on Private schooling now and I understand the reasons why.
What I also know is that my sister-in-law grew up in a shite estate in Edinburgh and she got a free ride scholarship through private school. Her two siblings went to their local school. I imagine the fund is for the parents who aren’t paying the fees themselves. Maybe scholarships don’t cover VAT now or Funds are scrambling for permission to increase their support limit.
Either way or anyway, education disparity remains an issue
Unless you pay to send your child to a private school…. I’m afraid to say that nobody else gives a flying fuck and if you are after sympathy…. You ain’t going to find it from the average punter!
Sad really, people cheering and clapping as one of the few ladders that can lift working class people who want an academic career up into the professional classes is pulled up.
It started in the 70’s when Labour pulled the grant aided benefit from private schools, the idea being parents who sent their kids to private school saved the state the cost of educating their offspring so they shared the benefit.
Costs for private education were between 5 and 10% of the average wage, so more a lifestyle choice.
Funny thing is how the working class heroes rub their hands in glee that working class parents are no longer able to send their kids to a private school.
Still, it won’t affect wealthy people, they will still be able to afford the fees.
All this hate and trolling in the comments section. majority of people that send their kids to private are hard working people that aren’t the descendants of lords. It’s so easy to be unfocused and put your kids in a public school. Fill out the form sunshine.
Hardship fund 😂😂😂
Taxes aside, does the private school v state school system mean we effectively have school segregation based on class?
£12,000 for private school seems reasonable vs
Cost per prisoner – young offenders institution £32,000 approx
Fewer cappuccinos and avocado toast, lost the Netflix subscription and you should survive.
And once again, a thousand little violins join into a simple but elegant melody…
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