Thank you the Telegraph

**BrilloPad** · 21 May 2008, 14:31

Telegraph

always top read

**Platypus** · 21 May 2008, 14:35

The latest estimate is that 671,000 children, or 7 per cent of the school population, are educated privately. It is calculated that this saves the country £3.5 billion a year ... a think tank specialising in private education research estimates that charitable status is worth £400 to £600 a pupil. This is a tenth of the revenue costs and probably a twentieth of the combined revenue and capital costs that would be incurred per child were the state having to educate them

I've been saying for ages that the cost of charitable status is far less than the saving to the state education system, but did anybody listen ?

**DodgyAgent** · 21 May 2008, 14:38

And despite the record amounts of dosh that the socialists have had available to redistribute and control, two fingers to Polly Toynbee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf....conservatives

**Platypus** · 21 May 2008, 14:53

the morning after Crewe, the question will be: how does Labour get stampeding voters to stop and think rationally about the long-term difference between a Labour and a Conservative future?

Toynbee doesn't get that perhaps voters ARE NOW thinking about that difference!

I hope the Tories have a landslide win in Crewe. Hearing various ministers bluster about mid term blues will be fun on Friday!

**threaded** · 21 May 2008, 14:54

In Denmark they have this money follows the child thingy, so the extra that parents pay is quite little really, I know a council gardener with, I think, 7 children all in private school.

(And they all seem to come round to my house when there's something wrong with their bicycles)

Anyways, the New Lie are always banging on about how private schools should not be so elitist, whereas the truth is their policies created and perpetuate such a separation.

**Bagpuss** · 21 May 2008, 14:56

Originally posted by Platypus View Post

Toynbee doesn't get that perhaps voters ARE NOW thinking about that difference!

I hope the Tories have a landslide win in Crewe. Hearing various ministers bluster about mid term blues will be fun on Friday!

The Tories won't get a landslide win in Crewe. Their hope is the population of Nantwich and surrounding farming areas come out to vote.

**Platypus** · 21 May 2008, 14:58

Originally posted by threaded View Post

New Lie are always banging on about how private schools should not be so elitist

And in fact many parents whose kids are at private schools would much rather be spending the money on say family holidays than putting the fees on a credit card. It's a crime that people feel they have no choice but to go private, for the sake of their kids.

(Of course there are rich elitist snobs at the schools too, but usually not as many as people imagine).

Thank you the Telegraph