'The juxtaposition of one child fee paying and one non-fee paying... they are learning at the same rate,’ said Amy Eccles.
With parents spending £40K+ on fees for the same result, you may question why?
📉 Falling Oxbridge admission numbers
Last month, it became startlingly clear that state schools can compete with the independent sector.
🥇 A state school has just won the most Oxbridge offers, outstripping celebrated rivals at Eton and St Paul’s telegraph.co.uk/education-and-…
❌ Sexual-abuse allegations.
Allegations of misogyny and ‘rape culture’ flourishing among gilded teenage boys have become common.
It is hard to imagine such behaviour is exclusive to the independent sector, but many reports are coming from such schools
📈 Private school costs have tripled in since the 1980s, and gone up by 50% in the past decade.
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council argues that private schools offer value.
📌 ‘Demand hasn’t fallen, it’s gone up sharply in the past year’
🏫Parents are now showing little loyalty to their alma maters.
🔎 Focusing instead on tailoring the right choice, state or private, at the right time, for each child telegraph.co.uk/education/0/pr…
↔️There is an increasing number of 'double-dippers': who switch between state and private.
6% of children are in private education at any one time, however 10% are privately educated at some point.
In families with more than 1 child, more are choosing to split between systems
↔️ During the first lockdown, Amy and Simon Eccles, both essential workers, moved their daughter from private to state school.
📚Their reasons were practical:
Few parents at the private school were key-workers. Classes were empty - she was attending with only 1 or 2 others
🎒 The move to state school saw 'more families with both parents working, almost 60% [of students] were back.’
Once at her new school, the Eccles found that their daughter was thriving:
📚 Doing well academically
🎼 Opportunity for music lessons
🥎 Joining after school clubs
✅ Save a fortune and bag a brilliant, enriching, diverse education for your child? It sounds like a no-brainer.
It’s rarely simple.
👨👩👧👦 The Eccles have two children and their son still attends private school. They feel he particularly benefits from the additional facilities
Did you attend private school? Is private education really worth the money?
⁉️ So what to do… Here’s what the experts have to say 👇
↔️ Don’t be afraid to mix systems
📑 Do your homework
👧👦 Be gender specific, girls and boys are very different in learning
📚 On the morning of 9 March, 2019, Hilary Mantel finished writing The Mirror & the Light, the third volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy she had spent 15 years on
🏴 "I wanted to leave the reader feeling that it was a tragedy, but not a disaster. Cromwell changed England, and he probably did everything that he set out to do. So although he must have gone to his execution in great distress, I don’t think it would be with regret"
🏝️ "For all his undoubted intellectual abilities, Cummings has at times shown Celebrity Love Island levels of stupidity. There have been many mistakes but arguably his most elementary error of all has been picking a fight with Carrie Symonds"
❌ "Aside from his Domvotees, the general consensus in SW1 was that Cummings’s short-lived tenure at No 10 was pretty much an unmitigated disaster...He was about as suited to government as Jean-Claude Juncker is to dry January"
🔴 At least 44 people have been killed and a hundred injured after a stampede broke out at a religious bonfire festival in Israel telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/3…
🔴The stampede occurred during the annual celebrations of Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said he was praying for the victims following the "great tragedy"
🔴It was not immediately clear what caused the stampede, but some eyewitnesses said a group of attendees slipped on steps, which in turn caused more people to fall