These privately educated parents sent their 4 girls to state schools, and they thrived. “let’s focus on making state schools so excellent that you’d have to be mad to want to shell out a small fortune for something less good. apple.news/AXUpVrteeR4K... - ThreadSky

fascinatorfun.bsky.social • 65 days ago

These privately educated parents sent their 4 girls to state schools, and they thrived.

“let’s focus on making state schools so excellent that you’d have to be mad to want to shell out a small fortune for something less good.

https://apple.news/AXUpVrteeR4KpC9ig9yt5XA

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robertilbrink.bsky.social•64 days ago

Even when there would be no academic difference between state and private schools, private schools still create a mystique, bond, and network between the students around a "we're from the better and more influential families" feeling, which opens doors and paths that remain closed for others.

brexodusrex.bsky.social•65 days ago

Love seeing you here Fiona. We were connected in the other place

But read the article. Involved middle Class parents sending to Church schools and no doubt in good neighbourhoods with excellent schools.

Not an option for most parents.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•65 days ago

Private school is not an option for most parents.

brexodusrex.bsky.social•65 days ago

No. Not for the majority.

But good state schools are correlated to local wealth and parental involvement - also correlated to disposable time and wealth.

boodie123.bsky.social•65 days ago

Paywall

bettinastruff.bsky.social•65 days ago

I see no paywall but for those who do the article appears to have already been archived here.

https://archive.ph/V8ZMK

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•65 days ago

Now, let’s think…given that it is the independent, if you aren’t an Apple device user…what could you do to see if you can access it in another way? Or perhaps you want me to do it for you? (I shan’t)

danielj.uk•65 days ago

Works for me and I'm not an Independent subscriber?

duenorth1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Further to this, input from an untypical group of parents can make state schools better for all, if best efforts come together.

thesolarking.bsky.social•65 days ago

Same as us. I Hated school. Our girls thrived and could not have done better getting 1st class honours and distinctions in their Masters. Nursery & state school from day one. Main difference they could get their heads down, something I had difficulty with. (2.2 BA Hons in beer drinking & womanising)

mermaidspursej.bsky.social•65 days ago

I have said before that state school will give you a good education if you are naturally interested in learning. If you aren't, the isn't funding for support systems and class sizes are too big. If they could do just one thing, it should be to make class sizes smaller.

thesolarking.bsky.social•65 days ago

Never overlook the shortcomings of private education. Poor teaching, lack of pastoral care. One contemporary left at 16 with severe undiagnosed dyslexia discovered at the start of an apprenticeship. I thought I was rubbish at maths, not so, it was the teacher, cutting off pathways in later education

fbpech.bsky.social•65 days ago

I was ( partially) privately educated. All mine have been to state schools and done well.

thisoldman.bsky.social•65 days ago

If you stand back a bit, it seems obvious that every child in the country should have the same basic education. Private and 'faith' schools are both absurd and unfair.

suew.bsky.social•65 days ago

We need less private, fee-paying schools and more state schools. I would quite happily see all private, fee-paying schools turned into state schools. Also, I would rather we didn't have faith schools either - children of all faiths (and none) should all be allowed to be schooled together.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•65 days ago

“If private schools are no longer a realistic choice – as they weren’t for us, even if we’d wanted them – you look at how to help make your child’s state education the best it can possibly be. And that way, as Phillipson says, everyone wins.”

arj2024.bsky.social•65 days ago

Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge is the best performing UK school, state or private, for OxBridge entries (if you value that metric).

For 2024-25, they received £4,834 per student per year.

How about capping private schools at that level?...you'd see state funding shoot up overnight!

bundelabun.bsky.social•65 days ago

Spouse and I are self-made, comprehensive state educated.
We didn’t thrive.
We hated our schools.
We feared the bullying by fellow pupils of us and our teachers.
We had years of teachers’ strikes and years of underfunding and the humiliation of the teaching profession.
We hid our intelligence.

cierzo.bsky.social•65 days ago

Went to private schools in Spain while at primary and state ones at secondary because I had enough of private school
Silliness, my kid in the UK is going estate school although due to SEND we may be pushed by LA into a private one as needs not met, I hate this lack of choice.

mickwatling.bsky.social•65 days ago

If the parents who can no longer afford private education donate half of the school fees they would have spent to the state school their children now go to, it would improve the whole education system.

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