If that’s their logic, Wouldn’t it also be discrimination to refuse to offer a child a eduction in your school because their parents can’t afford the private fee?
Business wants money.
Not a popular one, Joe.
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Nationalise them.
Ah now this is ridiculous. They will continue to charge the parents for their child to attend the place as well as charge a non refundable fee just to apply!!
Alexandra College in Dublin is a private school for girls. For secondary day pupils the cost is between 7k and 23k and that does not include extras like insurance or extra curricular activities.
But they charge €150 just to apply and its non refundable so they get that revenue aswell.
They are fee paying schools not State schools and they have the absolute neck to say its discrimination to be excluded from State grants.
It’s very much have their cake and eat it too.
If private schools didn’t get state funding then most parents who send their kids to them wouldn’t be able to afford the fees. At the moment they are, say, 5–8k. They’d go up to British public school prices, so 30+k. All those kids would then get sent to state schools, which would be very overwhelmed. The parents who would have sent the kids to the private schools would just use the money to get their kids extra grinds etc. anyway, so they’d still be advantaged. I always find the bitterness against private schools in this country pointless and bizarre for this reason.
Most private schools cost less per year than a creche, which is also subsidised. Will we picket the toddlers next?
They should be illegal
Let’s see who they lobby now for this to be sneaked past into legislation. Not to mention there are people in this country who would be happy for this to happen since their kids are in a private school. A family member is a good example of that. Wants private schools to be government funded thinking that he might have to then pay less for his kids to be “better educated” than the rest of the plebs. Stepping stone towards Americanization of our public affairs.
€111 million in funding? Why are they getting any? If they want to be private, then they shouldn’t get any funding, imagine how many resource teachers, SNA’s, preschool places €111 million would provide. Jesus Christ!
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If that’s their logic, Wouldn’t it also be discrimination to refuse to offer a child a eduction in your school because their parents can’t afford the private fee?
Business wants money.
Not a popular one, Joe.
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Nationalise them.
Ah now this is ridiculous. They will continue to charge the parents for their child to attend the place as well as charge a non refundable fee just to apply!!
Alexandra College in Dublin is a private school for girls. For secondary day pupils the cost is between 7k and 23k and that does not include extras like insurance or extra curricular activities.
But they charge €150 just to apply and its non refundable so they get that revenue aswell.
They are fee paying schools not State schools and they have the absolute neck to say its discrimination to be excluded from State grants.
It’s very much have their cake and eat it too.
If private schools didn’t get state funding then most parents who send their kids to them wouldn’t be able to afford the fees. At the moment they are, say, 5–8k. They’d go up to British public school prices, so 30+k. All those kids would then get sent to state schools, which would be very overwhelmed. The parents who would have sent the kids to the private schools would just use the money to get their kids extra grinds etc. anyway, so they’d still be advantaged. I always find the bitterness against private schools in this country pointless and bizarre for this reason.
Most private schools cost less per year than a creche, which is also subsidised. Will we picket the toddlers next?
They should be illegal
Let’s see who they lobby now for this to be sneaked past into legislation. Not to mention there are people in this country who would be happy for this to happen since their kids are in a private school. A family member is a good example of that. Wants private schools to be government funded thinking that he might have to then pay less for his kids to be “better educated” than the rest of the plebs. Stepping stone towards Americanization of our public affairs.
€111 million in funding? Why are they getting any? If they want to be private, then they shouldn’t get any funding, imagine how many resource teachers, SNA’s, preschool places €111 million would provide. Jesus Christ!