Pandicorn

There are many local children who walk, cycle or get the bus to go to the Foundation Schools (especially the junior/ prep schools) and we local parents work hard to pay for them to attend. We choose to do this rather than pay the huge uplift that very few can afford, to live within 100m catchment area of a 'local school' which prices out and therefore edges out families who really need thir kids to attend a good state school, all the while secretly feeling smug that you've somehow got close to a private school education - or at least to only mixing with other middle class people - for free. I speak from personal experience of friends who would only allow their children to go to particular high achieving state schools, and who have attended church and moved home to get them in, and then complain about we parents who pay taxes to support state schools, and then on top of that choose to pay more for our own childrens' education. Very boring to hear people complain about private school privilege when they've contributed to a damaging privilege system within the state school infrastructure.