Vat on Independent school fees?

[bluethrunthru]

Having just checked, of the last nine headmasters, which cover the last 100 years, two were educated at Eton. Five PMs were over the same period.

Of the remaining seven headmasters, of those that were educated in England (five) all went to other, top tier public schools: Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Sherborne and Winchester (where the current headmaster went to school).

I guess if your career is within the public school sector, then headmaster at Eton has to be the top job doesn’t it?

the "PM of public schools" as it were?

 

[Blue on Sea]

In the dim and distant past, I played rugby union against a public school. We had to get a minibus to the pitch from the changing rooms. Later we were given a 3-course lunch with beer, despite being about 14. How the other half live..

 

[bluethrunthru]

Will somebody please break it to the original dumb blonde Allison

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Will somebody please break it to the original dumb blonde Allison

Aside from just being wrong, irony meter straight to eleven!

 

[BrianW]

You see, something good has come out of Brexit after all!

 

[metalblue]

Aside from just being wrong, irony meter straight to eleven!

Not sure she’s wrong TBH.

Under EU law it’s considered illegal… we are no longer in the EU so…

That doesn’t mean it’s automatically legal with the current court cases looking to prove it breaches ECHR law in the coming weeks/months.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Not sure she’s wrong TBH.

Under EU law it’s considered illegal… we are no longer in the EU so…

That doesn’t mean it’s automatically legal with the current court cases looking to prove it breaches ECHR law in the coming weeks/months.

Might be the final straw for echr if the posh twats take it there

 

[metalblue]

Might be the final straw for echr if the posh twats take it there

Not everyone who sends their kids to private school is a posh twat though ;)

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Not everyone who sends their kids to private school is a posh twat though ;)

I imagine anyone with the means to push a case to the echr will be though.

 

[metalblue]

I imagine anyone with the means to push a case to the echr will be though.

As I understand it the challenges are;

1 is funded by the council of private schools,
1 is funded by some religious nuts group
1 has been crowd funded.

So none have been funded by an individual although I imagine a few legal bods would send their offspring to private school.