pennine
Gap between #privateschool fees & #stateschool per-pupil spending in England more than doubled over past decade #IFS. Such figures show private education supports inequality. This canker must be removed. https://tinyurl.com/3fn9c9j6 #firstclasseducation4all #torycorruption
State and private schools cash gap doubles - study

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says fees are over 90% higher than state-school per-pupil spending.

BBC News
Jul 11, 2023 at 7:50amWeb
Show threadBecksyJul 11, 2023
@pennine by canker do you imply private schools should be removed for providing a service the State is failing to deliver?
Show threadpennineJul 12, 2023
@Becksy By canker I mean private education embeds a value system that is immoral. The state sector will reach its full potential when private education is no more.
Show threadBecksyJul 12, 2023
@pennine I totally disagree. As a working class lad, raised in the state system in a run down industrial area, I clawed my way up and did okay. Not rich. Just hard working overtaxed middle class. My choice was do without / take on debt and send kids to private school or send to second rate local state schools. What would you do? Don’t tell me you’d choose principle over your kids?
Show threadBecksyJul 12, 2023
@pennine 2/2 The problem is not private schools. By sending my kids privately I saved the state schools money. The problem is longtime underinvestment in state schools. Underinvestment by Labour and Tories alike. Private schools wouldn’t be necessary if successive governments had done their job properly
Show threadpennineJul 13, 2023
@Becksy Human beings are ends in themselves, and as such have certain Inalienable rights, one of which is the best possible education that the state can provide for each individual, regardless of money or power. Private education entrenches inequality & supports a class system.
Show threadBecksyJul 13, 2023
@pennine you could say the same about a range of services. Hospitals, dentists, opticians, vets etc. it feels a bit idealistic to expect all these things to be free at point of delivery for everyone. Not unless you’re happy to increase income tax to unsustainable levels.
Show threadBecksyJul 13, 2023
@pennine in theory okay. In the real world the state cannot afford to pay for the children currently in private education. There are around 2,600 private schools in the UK, which educate around 615,000 children, some 7 per cent of all British children and 18 per cent of pupils over the age of 16.