Private schools are corrosive. Kids who come from private schools stick out like a sore thumb at uni.
EDIT: A lot of private school kids triggered that they can easily be picked out in social situations. Yeah you have disadvantages from being privately schooled. It impacts on your ability to interact socially as you were constricted significantly throughout your youth. All those months probably without a loving family around you actually alters the way your brain develops.
I also think that private education in the UK is a very bad thing. But I would have sent my child to a private school if I could have afforded it. It’s not something an individual can do about it. Why not give your children a better start if you can.
Politician changes his morals when it suits him…..shocker.
Whilst I disagree with him tacitly supporting private education. Anyone here who says they wouldn’t also do everything within their means to give their child the best start in life is a fucking liar.
I’d happily support a political party that promised to abolish private schooling, but until that time arrives, I’m sending my child to a private school.
I don’t think that’s hypocrisy – you can honestly support change to society while taking an optimal approach to the current situation.
I’d also like people in my income band to be taxed more but I’m not going to start sending the taxman extra money voluntarily by myself alone. Change needs to happen at a governmental level.
Edit: Clegg is still a slimeball for oh so many other reasons of course.
My copy of the orange book is in storage. I’m relying on one of you fine people to read his chapter about it to see if he mentions education at all.
“Man who hasn’t been a politician for 5 years and hasn’t held any significant political position for 7 years does something that doesn’t quite match up with comment made 10 years ago.”
We live in the society that we have, not the society that we would want. Clegg (and others) can recognise that the segregation of education based on wealth is corrosive to the concept of societal equal opportunity but ultimately when it comes to your own kids you do what you think will be best for them.
We all know that state schools have been poorly funded during the Tories time in government and there is plenty of evidence showing that private schools generally do better in terms of results and have superior facilities.
He only says it because he thinks it will be popular, everyone knows that public education in 80% is waste of time and money
Ask yourself, how much you benefited from lessons outside of learning how to read, math, some basics biology, and sex education
So did Corbyn. We always want the best for our kids, even if we wish the best was free.
Edit: autocorrect
Second Edit: This is inaccurate. Corbyn’s first son DID go to a grammar school, but against his will- he divorced his wife (partially) over the decision. It’s mischaracterization to imply he wanted to send his son there, and I was fooled by it.
Is this where this sub reddit’s got to trying to bash the lib dems on an old leader, if you vote labour your all war criminals i tell you, something which can’t be said for the lib dems.
Don’t hate the player hate the game.
There is nothing in-congruent about trying your hardest to fix the system whilst still playing the game to your best personal advantage.
If we actually want to fix shit we need to accept this & focus our ire on those who use power to change the system and make inequality worse & corruption easier.
Of course I would say Clegg is such a dickbag, but that’s got nothing to do with where he sends his kids to school.
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Good for him. Anyone that can afford to give their kids a better education should do it. Having grown up going to a shitty comprehensive in Streatham, I have no desire to see my kids go through the same.
Very hypocritical of him though, like Diane Abbott.
Work in state school but my kids are privately educated.
I wish with all my heart that the kids I teach could have even a fraction of the opportunities my own kids have.
Resources. Small classes. Beautiful surroundings. Inspiring outside speakers. Trips. Teachers with time for them. Support for neurodivergence. Technology. Amazing facilities. Extra curricular activities.
I hate the underfunding from this government and how so many state educated kids are being utterly failed by the system.
Private education is corrosive. It’s also a fact that private education gives people a head start in life. Nick Clegg, like all the rest of us, wants the best for his children. Had we the money and means we’d all follow his example.
It’s possible and understandable to be a hypocrite on this. People can be opposed to private schooling because it’s part of an unequal system and still want what’s going to benefit their kid because they know the government aren’t going to do anything about that inequality.
I’m going to be down voted to hell for saying this, and I do have major problems with Clegg, but he’s not necessarily being hypocritical.
My kid is autistic, and he was being failed completely by his state primary school. Long story short, we paid and sent him to a private school, who did have the ability to deal with these issues. He did extremely well.
Now, I am completely against private education. I believe that the state should provide excellent schooling, and the I’m very happy to pay extra tax to do this – as long as everyone else has to abide by the same tax laws. the six figure sum I paid on education would be a hell of a lot more than any additional tax I would likely have to pay anyway.
In *exactly* the same way that someone whose kid had a serious health condition and was able to pay for private provision that would treat them, that was not available on the NHS would be nothing short of an abuser to *not* provide the best possible care to their kid, a parent who has the ability to take a child out of a school which is failing them completely, and is proving immensely damaging to their mental health, is under a moral duty to do the best they can for their kid.
We support the state education system entirely, and my wife has been a very active governor at several local schools, very effectively, and does a huge about of unpaid work to support, equivalent to probably £50k a year for the 7 years she’s been going this. She also knows pretty much there is to know about SEN provision in the state sector (which is, incidentally, overall a lot better than it was when we made the decision to send our kid to private school).
So, it’s pretty lazy to imply that someone who believes in a policy of improving state education and may even believe in abolishing private schools, is necessarily being hypocritical if he sends a child to one.
It equally annoys me when the Daily Mail gets unhappy about environmentalists using powered transport, or socialists drinking champagne.
Okay? It’s one thing to acknowledge unfairness in society, it’s another thing to make the best decisions for your child within your means. People are allowed to do both things and it is not hypocrisy.
I think private schools are corrosive and that we should end their existence (like some other countries have). However, whilst they exist, and whilst I can afford to, I will send my children there. Because the world is unfair and our time in it is short, so I will give them every advantage I can. I am unapologetic.
“We should improve society somewhat”
“Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent.”
You don’t fuck around when it comes to your own kids.
Nick Clegg saying one thing but doing another? I’m shocked
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Tory in disguise isnt he.
Private schools are corrosive. Kids who come from private schools stick out like a sore thumb at uni.
EDIT: A lot of private school kids triggered that they can easily be picked out in social situations. Yeah you have disadvantages from being privately schooled. It impacts on your ability to interact socially as you were constricted significantly throughout your youth. All those months probably without a loving family around you actually alters the way your brain develops.
I also think that private education in the UK is a very bad thing. But I would have sent my child to a private school if I could have afforded it. It’s not something an individual can do about it. Why not give your children a better start if you can.
Politician changes his morals when it suits him…..shocker.
Whilst I disagree with him tacitly supporting private education. Anyone here who says they wouldn’t also do everything within their means to give their child the best start in life is a fucking liar.
I’d happily support a political party that promised to abolish private schooling, but until that time arrives, I’m sending my child to a private school.
I don’t think that’s hypocrisy – you can honestly support change to society while taking an optimal approach to the current situation.
I’d also like people in my income band to be taxed more but I’m not going to start sending the taxman extra money voluntarily by myself alone. Change needs to happen at a governmental level.
Edit: Clegg is still a slimeball for oh so many other reasons of course.
My copy of the orange book is in storage. I’m relying on one of you fine people to read his chapter about it to see if he mentions education at all.
“Man who hasn’t been a politician for 5 years and hasn’t held any significant political position for 7 years does something that doesn’t quite match up with comment made 10 years ago.”
We live in the society that we have, not the society that we would want. Clegg (and others) can recognise that the segregation of education based on wealth is corrosive to the concept of societal equal opportunity but ultimately when it comes to your own kids you do what you think will be best for them.
We all know that state schools have been poorly funded during the Tories time in government and there is plenty of evidence showing that private schools generally do better in terms of results and have superior facilities.
He only says it because he thinks it will be popular, everyone knows that public education in 80% is waste of time and money
Ask yourself, how much you benefited from lessons outside of learning how to read, math, some basics biology, and sex education
So did Corbyn. We always want the best for our kids, even if we wish the best was free.
Edit: autocorrect
Second Edit: This is inaccurate. Corbyn’s first son DID go to a grammar school, but against his will- he divorced his wife (partially) over the decision. It’s mischaracterization to imply he wanted to send his son there, and I was fooled by it.
Is this where this sub reddit’s got to trying to bash the lib dems on an old leader, if you vote labour your all war criminals i tell you, something which can’t be said for the lib dems.
Don’t hate the player hate the game.
There is nothing in-congruent about trying your hardest to fix the system whilst still playing the game to your best personal advantage.
If we actually want to fix shit we need to accept this & focus our ire on those who use power to change the system and make inequality worse & corruption easier.
Of course I would say Clegg is such a dickbag, but that’s got nothing to do with where he sends his kids to school.
[removed]
Good for him. Anyone that can afford to give their kids a better education should do it. Having grown up going to a shitty comprehensive in Streatham, I have no desire to see my kids go through the same.
Very hypocritical of him though, like Diane Abbott.
Work in state school but my kids are privately educated.
I wish with all my heart that the kids I teach could have even a fraction of the opportunities my own kids have.
Resources. Small classes. Beautiful surroundings. Inspiring outside speakers. Trips. Teachers with time for them. Support for neurodivergence. Technology. Amazing facilities. Extra curricular activities.
I hate the underfunding from this government and how so many state educated kids are being utterly failed by the system.
Private education is corrosive. It’s also a fact that private education gives people a head start in life. Nick Clegg, like all the rest of us, wants the best for his children. Had we the money and means we’d all follow his example.
It’s possible and understandable to be a hypocrite on this. People can be opposed to private schooling because it’s part of an unequal system and still want what’s going to benefit their kid because they know the government aren’t going to do anything about that inequality.
I’m going to be down voted to hell for saying this, and I do have major problems with Clegg, but he’s not necessarily being hypocritical.
My kid is autistic, and he was being failed completely by his state primary school. Long story short, we paid and sent him to a private school, who did have the ability to deal with these issues. He did extremely well.
Now, I am completely against private education. I believe that the state should provide excellent schooling, and the I’m very happy to pay extra tax to do this – as long as everyone else has to abide by the same tax laws. the six figure sum I paid on education would be a hell of a lot more than any additional tax I would likely have to pay anyway.
In *exactly* the same way that someone whose kid had a serious health condition and was able to pay for private provision that would treat them, that was not available on the NHS would be nothing short of an abuser to *not* provide the best possible care to their kid, a parent who has the ability to take a child out of a school which is failing them completely, and is proving immensely damaging to their mental health, is under a moral duty to do the best they can for their kid.
We support the state education system entirely, and my wife has been a very active governor at several local schools, very effectively, and does a huge about of unpaid work to support, equivalent to probably £50k a year for the 7 years she’s been going this. She also knows pretty much there is to know about SEN provision in the state sector (which is, incidentally, overall a lot better than it was when we made the decision to send our kid to private school).
So, it’s pretty lazy to imply that someone who believes in a policy of improving state education and may even believe in abolishing private schools, is necessarily being hypocritical if he sends a child to one.
It equally annoys me when the Daily Mail gets unhappy about environmentalists using powered transport, or socialists drinking champagne.
Okay? It’s one thing to acknowledge unfairness in society, it’s another thing to make the best decisions for your child within your means. People are allowed to do both things and it is not hypocrisy.
Relevant [The Thick of It](https://youtu.be/Hreytcpjg5o)
I think private schools are corrosive and that we should end their existence (like some other countries have). However, whilst they exist, and whilst I can afford to, I will send my children there. Because the world is unfair and our time in it is short, so I will give them every advantage I can. I am unapologetic.
“We should improve society somewhat”
“Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent.”
You don’t fuck around when it comes to your own kids.
Nick Clegg saying one thing but doing another? I’m shocked
Well not that shocked
*this should be a Fry gif but you get the idea