If you’re British, do you believe anything keir Starmer says ? did you vote for him, and would you again ?
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gandalf1957 · 61-69, M
@jefferson
I did clearly state in my previous post "Numerous private schools at the bottom end on pupil fees ......" maybe you didn't read that phrase?
It's not the millionaires whose childrens' private schools are closing it is everyday working people who chose to pay to send their children for whatever reason to a private school (and maybe foregoing other things such as holidays to do so) possibly because at the local schools in the area in which they live children are not performing well, or maybe the child is musically talented which is not studied in depth by the state school, or has special needs and in so doing those parents are actually effectively subsidising others as they themselves have no rebate on their taxes for not using state schools.
If those parents were millionaires the VAT on private schools wouldn't affect them the extra charge would be a "mere drop in the ocean", "chicken feed", whichever phrase you prefer.
The millionaires can still afford to send their children to the upper echelon private schools, the likes of Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster. Roedean. Millfield etc. - but I'm referring to the lower end private schools, especially the private day schools (not all private schools are boarding schools) the ones that are going bankrupt and closing and from where the pupils (whose parents are not millionaires and can't afford the fee scales of the next tier of private schools) are now entering a state sector that in some counties have few if any state school places for them. Hence the reason the councils are paying taxi fares in some cases to take those children miles to a state school that has spaces.
I did clearly state in my previous post "Numerous private schools at the bottom end on pupil fees ......" maybe you didn't read that phrase?
It's not the millionaires whose childrens' private schools are closing it is everyday working people who chose to pay to send their children for whatever reason to a private school (and maybe foregoing other things such as holidays to do so) possibly because at the local schools in the area in which they live children are not performing well, or maybe the child is musically talented which is not studied in depth by the state school, or has special needs and in so doing those parents are actually effectively subsidising others as they themselves have no rebate on their taxes for not using state schools.
If those parents were millionaires the VAT on private schools wouldn't affect them the extra charge would be a "mere drop in the ocean", "chicken feed", whichever phrase you prefer.
The millionaires can still afford to send their children to the upper echelon private schools, the likes of Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster. Roedean. Millfield etc. - but I'm referring to the lower end private schools, especially the private day schools (not all private schools are boarding schools) the ones that are going bankrupt and closing and from where the pupils (whose parents are not millionaires and can't afford the fee scales of the next tier of private schools) are now entering a state sector that in some counties have few if any state school places for them. Hence the reason the councils are paying taxi fares in some cases to take those children miles to a state school that has spaces.