Labour’s private schools tax raid ‘will make education more elitist’

Nick Dixon, Josh Howie, and Cressida Wetton share their thoughts on a story from The Telegraph.

#elitism #labour #gbnews #school

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[dwayne_dibley]

My parents moved from a beautiful 3 bedroom large detached house to a 2 bed semi detached bungalow to get me into the best state school in the county along with out of school private tuition where I needed it. That’s sacrifice.

[mjh]

There are actually quite a lot of working class kids in private schools and their parents hardly have to pay any school fees at all, they get given scholarships because they`re particularly academic or talented at sport or art etc.These kids will be the first to lose out because the schools will cut scholarship costs

[karllambert]

Every brexitier that respectfully came out and voted leave, must once more come out and VOTE REFORM UK 🇬🇧👍

[johngurvan]

About time they made churches pay VAT.

[chrishouse]

quote google
"Some private schools are charities because they are established to advance education, which is a charitable purpose. To qualify as a charity, they must also demonstrate that they provide a public benefit. This usually means that they:

Ensure that underprivileged communities can access their services
Partner with local state schools "

All the ones I know of are registered as a charity! I worked at one, what an eye opener. "How did the headmaster afford to build a swimming pool at his home" was the question many asked? "why is this signed cheque blank, was another?

[tamimrktz]

The country is facing a very bleak future under the Labour.

[tenniskinsella]

Yes good point they might live near a bad school

[loafersheffield]

Should never have gotten rid of the grammar school system. The CONservatives never repealed nor reversed that. Get Peter Hitchens on to discuss this. Wait! Headliners is supposed to be a light hearted, comedic take on issues and Peter Hitchens has no sense of humour.

[tenniskinsella]

Grammar schools were best i almost got intoba grammsr school just missed out but got in topbstream in secondary modern and wentvto college

[tenniskinsella]

Policies of envy labour. If y have the money or even if y have to sacrifice stuff to send your child or vhildren to private school
Its a choice and y are entitled to that and parents pay twice because they pay fit state schooling too. And maybe they also think the children will be free of the indoctorian which is rife in state schools but they might be wrong.

[joezuka]

This presenter is very uninformed.
I worked scrubbing pub floors in my 20s, saving up every extra penny I could to eventually further my education and advance my situation. I now have a child in private school, which is a financial priority for our family. I'm not wealthy, I drive a used Peugeot, not a German. By not living in pricey London, where I actually work, I can afford my house. I already pay school taxes on my income, and like most private school parents, I can JUST afford to have my kid there.

We know most of our leaders attended private institutions, right? And we complain about how distant they are from the people.
So restricting working parents' ability to provide those opportunities is absurd and shortsighted. It widens the gap!
What a ridiculous proposed “solution.” If only the rich can afford private schools our future leaders are even more likely to be distant because they won't have working parents at home giving them the example.

Now families must relocate to catchment areas and pay inflated housing costs just to access a decent Ofsted scoring public schools? Essentially penalizing those who work hard and budget responsibly by squeezing them for even more money?
Genius plan!

Let’s add extra barriers for responsible, working-class parents trying to secure a quality education. Can’t have those pesky middle-class children competing on merit now, can we?