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The state sector as a whole, selective or not, is collapsing
It's being underfunded by the Government whilst they cynically deflect attention by blaming "education tourists" (i.e. more of them foreign types, stirring more xenophobia) for coming over here and getting their children educated in the state system for free.
To be fair, the grammar school up the road from where I work is struggling so much with recent funding cuts they've been asking parents who can afford it to subsidise them £500/year for textbooks etc.
At the (single form entry, i.e. 210 pupil) primary school where my daughter goes the parents already raise about £50k a year to do a variety of things (buy some new stuff that would otherwise be unaffordable to the school, but also to cover shortfalls and replace old/worn items such as carpets and books).
The upcoming funding cuts are especially deep in London because they know that the parents are more likely to be able to fund the shortfall.
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To be fair, the grammar school up the road from where I work is struggling so much with recent funding cuts they've been asking parents who can afford it to subsidise them £500/year for textbooks etc.
The state sector as a whole, selective or not, is collapsing, and soon the only non-independent schools who can afford to pay staff, run trips, buy books etc will be free schools and academy chains. Which will then be a 'success story' for the rest of the schools to emulate.
Teaching will be a job done in six-month stints by management consultants reluctantly doing corporate social responsibility, apart from in the North and in deprived coastal towns where it will be an unaffordable luxury in our bafflingly stuttering post-Brexit economy.