I'd be more impressed if there was a determination to increase the standards of the state schools to that of the fee-paying schools, rather than dragging down and punishing success.
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Well said, private schools show what can be achieved, but it would take massive funding of state sector. Easier to remove achievements and say great everyone now equal.
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Our nearest private school does no better in league table terms than the top performing states. The head was even criticising league tables as putting undue pressure on pupils.(think that was to hide their own failings)
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It won’t stay in business for too long with those results. But with odd exceptions private schools do perform better for many reasons. But IMO closing them will not improve the state school performance
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And what happened to the Grammar school? Oh yes, the aristocratic left realised they gave working class kids a chance, so they got rid of them.
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Im afraid I have switched my view on this. All Grammar schools do is suck resources away from other state schools. I guess it depends whether you believe in a better education for the many or a privileged few.
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It wasn't a privileged few before Crosland and his ilk got hold of them.
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If you scrap fee paying schools where will the labour shadow cabinet send their kids.
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The upcoming Dainne Abbott Academy I expect !
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Let’s start with fewer university places , only for the brightest and the best,more apprenticeships inc 10000 nursing and police apprentices, plus free university tuition for all state pupils.
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I went to uni but I 1000% believe a lot of students just go to uni because it's the done thing and they get to be dependant for a lot longer and don't have to face real life! It's just the done thing nowadays and far far too many people go when they'd be more suited to work
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There are slow people at the back of private schools.. They just hang about and flourish anyway. It's not what you know, it's who you know (and went to school with).
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You have to pass entrance exams to qualify, either 11 Plus or Common Entrance exams. Neither are for dummies. The elite schools are elite for good reason.
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Yep, because the rich elite pay for them.
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Have a voucher system then! It’s not the funding that makes independents great at helping kids, it’s the teaching they get there (clue - it’s not based on socialism)
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The state system would collapse if it wasn’t for private schools, before you jump down my throat I went to a comprehensive!
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Of course it wouldn’t. It would just need to be adequately funded.
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With whose money, can you find 15000 extra school places tomorrow + the infrastructure? Which budget do you want the money to come from? NHS?
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The magic money tree where the money for the DUP came from, where Hunt is finding the money for a no deal brexit scenario and for the farmers
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Northern Ireland did, not the DUP.
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The DUP is the unionist party for Northern Ireland so it is for them dopey
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