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One of my key concerns is if you make it easy for a siginifcant proportion of the population to opt out
This 100%. If we had no private schools, those with £17k
a terma year to "invest" in their offsprings education would be incentivised to ensure that state schools were as successful as possible
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Then you end up with catchment area house inflation. A particular issue in the Greater Glasgow area. The catchment areas for the best state schools become completely bourgeoised. A circle of privilege.
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£17k a term to "invest"
Where are these figures plucked from?
When I looked at private primary schools they were £4-5k.
When I Google it says £5,218 per term.
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I doubt this. There would likely be some sort of increase in tutoring or weekend extra schools.
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One of my key concerns is if you make it easy for a siginifcant proportion of the population to opt out, people are going to feel more antagonistic towards state provision of services and you're losing a constituency that might otherwise be supporting their local schools.
Another issue associated with private school provision is that in many cases you are encouraging people to travel further making problems of school run worse