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All these "I'll have to give up xyz because of private school vat" stories are so bad that I'd be half inclined to believe they were plants if they weren't in the telegraph.
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She doesn't seem to have twigged that she'll have a spare £30k to spend on childcare and holidays now.
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What I find interesting about the article is they've surprisingly touched on some important issues like variation in wraparound care* and it's impact on people's ability to work - although writer and interviewer seemed to have missed them.
She could also choose a less expensive prep school. That seems quite toppy for that age - Millfield would be more like £20k. So even with VAT and extras still comes in budget. Even based on their graph she's paying almost double the average.
I don't believe that fee graph either. When we were working out the numbers for private school, the one we wanted had somewhere in the range of 7-13%pa increase irrc. Once you compound that and contextualise it against trivial annual wage increases it's a huge number. I simply don't believe she would have been able to afford it long term anyway.
*eg our primary can go from 7.45am-5.30pm
Dramatic_Hammer
hugo7
Thanks Sir Kier
https://archive.ph/Ci1sS