Should Fee-Paying Private(?) Schools be abolished?

[Fame Monster]

This question is becoming increasingly overlooked as faith schools take the wrath from the liberals.

It obviously goes against the principle of equality as you are educated to the standard of your parents' wealth.

So should they be abolished?

 

[glen quagmire]

Re: Should Public Schools be abolished?

Don't forget the nightly 'bummings'.

 

[peoffrey]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

No. Mummy and Daddy will give little Henry or Henrietta a job in the Family Business when they graduate in Sociology so their 7 years at a Private School beforehand makes no real difference to the rest of us.

 

[lloydie]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

All state support should be withdrawn, including charitable status and they should pay a "transfer fee" for teachers who trained under state subsidised courses. Religious or Political indoctrination should be barred from all schools, privately owned or not.

 

[johnny on the spot]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

Wow, the Martians are out in force tonight.

 

[law74]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

As a left wing socialist my first reaction would be yes and the sooner the better, but many of the fee paying public shools offer reduced boarding fees to the children of our armed forces, meaning that "pad-brats" have the chance of a decent education that they otherwise wouldnt have if they were required to follow daddy accross the globe to wherever HMG decided he was needed to protect our oil interests, oh sorry i meant security.
Rather than abolish them I would be in favour of making them take a percentage of local children on a non fee paying basis and the PTA or whatever paying to ensure that the local children had the same uniform and equipment as those from a more salubrious background.
(though this will NEVER happen when 23 of the cabinet are millionaires)

 

[another generation]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

You are educated to the standard of your parents' wealth.

That's bollocks. I didn't go to a public school, but I did go to a fee-paying private school, as my parents were wise enough to realise that the local comprehensives were just a waste of time. As for my parents' so-called wealth, Mum made virtually all my clothes when I was a kid (one fine way to raise an independently-minded kid), and Dad was made redundant at the time I was changing schools. So no, we had absolutely nothing to scrape together to pay for my education, nor the travel to school. This was, however, in the days of the Assisted Place scheme, lovingly scrapped by Blair. Through the goodness and charity of various benefactors, I was able to receive a really decent education. My parents continued to support me in every way they could, but when I look back now to the sacrifices and savings they made for me, down to the cheapest bit of offal to eat, it's very humbling.

As soon as I started earning a regular wage (then in the UK), I made sure that I could give someone else a better start in life, by making regular donations to the school I'd attended.

I think children are rather educated to the level of their parents' expectations, not their wealth.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

You are educated to the standard of your parents' wealth.

That's bollocks. I didn't go to a public school, but I did go to a fee-paying private school, as my parents were wise enough to realise that the local comprehensives were just a waste of time. As for my parents' so-called wealth, Mum made virtually all my clothes when I was a kid (one fine way to raise an independently-minded kid), and Dad was made redundant at the time I was changing schools. So no, we had absolutely nothing to scrape together to pay for my education, nor the travel to school. This was, however, in the days of the Assisted Place scheme, lovingly scrapped by Blair. Through the goodness and charity of various benefactors, I was able to receive a really decent education. My parents continued to support me in every way they could, but when I look back now to the sacrifices and savings they made for me, down to the cheapest bit of offal to eat, it's very humbling.

As soon as I started earning a regular wage (then in the UK), I made sure that I could give someone else a better start in life, by making regular donations to the school I'd attended.

I think children are rather educated to the level of their parents' expectations, not their wealth.

You were sir poorly done by. The latest Sutton Report shows that comp kids get better degrees than publically educated oiks or even grammar school kids.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

what's a fee paying public school?

 

[LongsightM13]

Re: Should Fee-Paying Public Schools be abolished?

Charitable status should definitely be scrapped. They are not charities but ruthless money making enterprises, and a training ground for perpetuating The Man, The Establishment and The System.