Labour are punishing private schools for their success
Teachers are not usually despised by the government of this country, but if you currently work in an independent school it is hard to escape the conclusion that, if they were allowed to do so, Labour would abolish the sector in a heartbeat. They hate us. The current Secretary of State for Education spent more than two years shadowing the role without visiting any independent schools. The Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, when she was shadow education secretary, said that Labour would end the ‘privatisation’ of education. The Chancellor Rachel Reeves said in 2018 that she has ‘always and will always oppose’ selective schools, and in 2019 she was quite clear that a Labour government should ‘work to abolish private education’.
A short piece but well reading, especially as this government is not known for its intelligence. It even seems to be envious of anyone who saw through Keir Starmer and co. well before the election.
The world is not driven by greed; it's driven by envy - Charlie Munger
Those international, ambitious parents must be looking on with astonishment as we attack these schools, without any idea of what could replace them when they are gone. Instead, we should be celebrating our independent schools and the success they inject, through the many brilliant young people they educate, into countless areas of British society. If we allow their slow strangulation, Labour’s Left will have won, but we, as a country, will have comprehensively failed.
Those international, ambitious parents must be looking on with astonishment as we attack these schools, without any idea of what could replace them when they are gone. Instead, we should be celebrating our independent schools and the success they inject, through the many brilliant young people they educate, into countless areas of British society. If we allow their slow strangulation, Labour’s Left will have won, but we, as a country, will have comprehensively failed.
3 comments:
"According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about 36% of Australian students go to non-government private schools with 64% going to public schools.
But enrolment significantly differs between primary and secondary schools. For primary, almost 69% of students are enrolled in public schools. For high school, this shrinks to 58%."
When we lived there we sent our nipper to a private kindergarten and later to a state primary school. Later in life I was approached about taking a job in Oz and it was simply assumed we'd expect to use a private school and so the tax advantages of doing this through my potential employer were laid out for me.
That potential employer was a state university.
dearieme - presumably, having approached you, they assumed you would know too much to have confidence in the alternative.
Is there VAT relief on sending your children to a billionaire Lord's luxury penthouse so they can revise in peace? If so, it should be abolished.
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