Vat on Independent school fees?

[Blue and true]

First world problems eh..

Exactly. Sending your kids private is not a sacrifice, it's a privilege and a luxury 95% of the country can't afford. A real sacrifice would be forgoing any little treats for months on end just to take your kid to their first footie match, or heaven forbid, scrimping on your food shops for months on end to afford Christmas presents.

There's fuck all wrong with state education; teachers do an impeccable job (despite the stress, my missus loves teaching and loves her kids), I have no issue with this tax so long as the government use the money raised to plough into state funding, which should facilitate any burgeoning numbers heading into the state system.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Did I really have to spell it out that it was an average of 0.4, not literally four tenths of a child?

I was referring to your assumption that the pupils leaving private schools could be evenly distributed across the 25,000 state schools, and that the attrition rate would be entirely uniform across the country, avoiding any bottlenecks and over-subscription.

That’s an entirely implausible assumption.

 

[west didsblue]

I was referring to your assumption that the pupils leaving private schools could be evenly distributed across the 25,000 state schools, and that the attrition rate would be entirely uniform across the country, avoiding any bottlenecks and over-subscription.

That’s an entirely implausible assumption.

You’d have to be completely stupid to think I was making that assumption just because I didn’t spell out that it was an average. However your track record suggests that you fall into that category.

Obviously it’s going to vary school by school and area by area, but the point is there would be a very limited number of schools where the additional demand would present a noticeable problem, and a huge majority of schools where they won’t notice the difference. Pupil roll variance year by year due to fluctuating birth rates is regularly coped with and the additional demand due to this will be insignificant.

 

[Brewster's millions]

SEND children at private schools are 100% funded by the LA if the child has an EHCP. And nearly 100% of SEND pupils at private schools have an EHCP. Won’t cost the parents of SEND pupils one additional pence.

Have a read of the NASUWT response to the consultation on the private school VAT issue, specifically paragraphs 33 to 40.

I think their submission covers the issue very well and highlights how even SEND students receiving an EHCP could place significant demands on local authorities should private schools close or the supply of teachers be reduced. They also dispute your figures in relation to the proportion of SEND pupils at private schools having an EHCP.

 

[Brewster's millions]

You’d have to be completely stupid to think I was making that assumption just because I didn’t spell out that it was an average. However your track record suggests that you fall into that category.

Obviously it’s going to vary school by school and area by area, but the point is there would be a very limited number of schools where the additional demand would present a noticeable problem, and a huge majority of schools where they won’t notice the difference. Pupil roll variance year by year due to fluctuating birth rates is regularly coped with and the additional demand due to this will be insignificant.

I’m afraid that you were the one that made the silly comment. Why make the comment at all if you’re not implicitly assuming that the attrition rate would be uniform, or very close to it, and therefore easily absorbed by the state sector? Without that assumption, your comment is null and void.

Your track record on here is making poorly thought through posts, as part of what is, it has to be said, stooge behaviour. This is just one example.

 

[west didsblue]

I’m afraid that you were the one that made the silly comment. Why make the comment at all if you’re not implicitly assuming that the attrition rate would be uniform, or very close to it, and therefore easily absorbed by the state sector? Without that assumption, your comment is null and void.

Your track record on here is making poorly thought through posts, as part of what is, it has to be said, stooge behaviour. This is just one example.

You’re just embarrassing yourself with your projection.

 

[PPT]

You’re just embarrassing yourself with your projection.

Explain why?

 

[west didsblue]

Explain why?

Doubt you’d understand when you struggle with basic grammar. I suspect your comprehension skills are similar.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You can tell who’s been privately educated on this thread and who hasn’t.

 

[Chippy_boy]

And fucking build on it. A few of these institutions of entitlement going out of business would free up some land for new housing developments.

FFS comrade, what is it with you did you get kicked out of the former Soviet Union for being too left wing for them?