I had to pull my children out of £38,000-a-year private school because of the soaring cost of living… It’s been a nightmare finding a good state school

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  1. Can anyone believe such people actually exist? It’s quite unbelievable such people even exist – it harkens back to Dickensian snobbery.

    Hopefully this trickle turns into a flood soon when Labour get in and the extra money these schools will be forced to pay should go a massive way to ending the huge spending cuts state schools have had under a government that, quite frankly, was happy to let the state sector collapse just like it did with the NHS (even more blatant than the current government) a generation ago in the 80s-90s until Labour ushered in a golden era.

  2. You spend the median salary just on your kids’ education. It’s hard to feel sympathetic that you can’t afford private education because the vast majority of people can’t afford it either.

  3. Can we get an archive link please? I could use a good laugh this morning but I don’t want to generate ad revenue for the Daily Mail.

  6. You have to wonder who is actually going to attend private schools in future.

    £38k a year after tax is a vast sum even for people on high incomes.

    And given the cost of housing etc… that money is probably better spent giving the kids £250k each when they are wanting to move out.

  8. Anecdotally, it’s not just parents quitting private schools, it’s also teachers. One school I know of is losing a large proportion of its teaching staff over a pay dispute. Private school teachers are already paid less than state school teachers, and it looks like they are not getting pay rises either.

  10. OP I’m intrigued by what the purpose was in posting this?

    Every UK sub has a hate-boner for anyone doing marginally better than they are in life, so this just reeks of baiting people in to a frothing rage than any genuine form of discussion.

  11. The telegraph had a story about someone who was struggling with the mortgage on their £7M house. I do wonder if the journalist is doing a secret pisstake.

  12. While I have little sympathy for them, my takeaway is the mess that state schools are in.

    We’re using broken and outdated equipment, classrooms are dilapidated, teachers are over worked and underpaid, school lunches have been privatised so the quality is poor as it’s all about profit, kids are more aggressive and defiant. All because we’re so underfunded and resourced by the government.

    There’s also fewer and fewer extra curricular because they’re run on teachers donating their own time and often money and there are fewer and fewer of us with the time, energy, and inclination to do so.

    The staff in state school are just as good as those in private ones they’re just not given the environment to succeed. If I could afford it I’d send my children to a private school in a heartbeat.

  13. My favourite bit is they found out kids were vaping and takin videos in class… which they thought couldn’t happen in a private school, lmao. Like the kids are just built different there or summin

  14. Please please don’t click that link, it’s obvious bait from the Daily Heil, the more clicks they get the more money they get.

  15. Well maybe if state schools got funded at £38,000 a year per child they’d be up to your standards, mate. Why not have a word with your MP about it?

  16. I don’t wanna click on the Daily Mail but I feel like this may be the same story I read the other day where this guy bought a £7 million house with a £5.25 million mortgage and had half the mortgage on a fixed rate and the other half variable as he was certain he could pay it off. But now the interest rates have skyrocketed he is struggling and don’t think he can afford the super expensive private education for his kids.

    The article funny enough was titled “The mortgage bomb about to explode under middle class Britain”. I feel like this guy was not representative of actual middle class, that or I don’t know what the middle class is.

  17. I know reddit will just be blinded by the fury if someone doing a bit better than them financially but its actually a pretty interesting piece.

  20. NB friend of a friend is a journalist and these stories are often fake basically to induce rage

  21. Dismantling the official private education system would just create an even more severe proxy private education system with house prices in catchment areas for good state schools sky rocketing.
    The only people Labour’s policies actually hurt are those stretching and trying to send their children to private school. The people who are truly rich won’t feel it.

    All this talk of trickle down effects from the rich* having to use state education is complete trash. It will be similarly clustered just in specific catchments. Delusional.

    *whatever that means

  22. Shouldn’t they simply have started finding places at a new school before moving the kids out?

    100 quid a week (now 150) on the weekly shop for a family of 4 seems very low. How often do they eat out?

  23. What’s interesting about this article is that they come to the conclusion that the state school turned out to be no worse than the private one and that they wouldn’t go back to the private school even if they won a lottery… Really that should be the headline.

  24. This subreddit kicks off at the concept of poverty porn but here’s a comment section full of people frothing at the mouth at a **Daily Mail** article that’s literally been written to do exactly that only the other way round.

    Yes it’s punching upwards but I hate the idea of the Daily Mail being the barometer of hate.

  25. “Children Posed By Models” These aren’t even her kids in the photo. It’s almost like DM wants to generate rage clicks with this dumbfuckery.

  26. >Taylor’s immediate response was, ‘Are we poor?’ to which I replied that no, we’re not, but we’re having to tighten our belts like most other families. 

    Private schools just embed the class structure in this country.

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