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Ah but there would be hundreds of empty schools and teachers who could become part of the state system
I was thinking more of the "bottom" (in terms of affordability) 10% of secondary school children leaving the private system and attempting to enter the state system. This would be spread over all of the public schools, so it's unlikely any single school would outright close, but the state school system couldn't handle a sudden influx of 60,000 children.
(To clarify, I mean the people who are only just managing to pay the current private school fees. Whatever sudden rise in public school fees, even if tapered, is going to knock a bunch of parents into deciding that it's just too much for them and off to state school they go. In my hypothetical example that's 10% of the 600k privately educated secondary children, and there aren't 60k spare secondary spaces in the country.)
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Ah but there would be hundreds of empty schools and teachers who could become part of the state system