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This sounds like satire.
Yeah, this feels like it sbould be on “Not the Onion”, wtf
I don’t think The Telegraph are capable of that
“The gardener used to come twice a month, but then he increased his costs from £230 a year to £245 a year. We only have him come once every other month now.”
I find it hard to believe a household with a combined salary (No bonus included) of £345k can’t scrape together an extra 15 quid.
Get the feeling this was deleted because they realised it was utter bollocks, though that’s not much better as they allowed it through.
I know it’s not the point but a gardener isn’t doing shit for £230 a year. That must be a typo, that has to be monthly and if they have a big garden that could be weekly!
I’d happily pay £240 a year for my garden, I have probably spent more than that on plants since I bought the house 2 years ago.
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depends, how much weed does he get for it?
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They’d have to delete the whole paper then.
This is real? Holy crap….
I actually know a couple of teachers at private schools and they say the people being hit hardest aren’t the rich twats but the families who scrimp and save just enough to try and give their kids the best opportunities.
Honest question, why do people pay 50-70k a year for school? If it was higher education, I presume that’s worth it for the connections you get there, maybe, but this is high school. Isn’t it possible to get into the best unis from a good state school?
So their kids don’t have to be with the poors ?
It’s quite possible, and quite common, to get into the best universities in the UK from state school. More than 67% of undergraduates at Oxford University come from state schools.
It is very possible, however housing near the better state schools is typically very expensive, so for many families it is considerably cheaper to shell out for private school instead.
Additionally, the high achieving state schools have selective entry, so even if you buy the expensive house within the catchment area, your child isn’t necessarily getting in even if they’re bright and studious.
If you are smart and hard working enough you can get into the top units that not a problem.
But it’s pretty much taken as a fact that people that go to private schools will do better than if they went to a state school.
So if you get 3xA* in state school, private school isn’t much benefit.
But if you going to come out with anything less or generally a troublemaker private schools might be better for you.
Not sure about the UK, but the prep school circuit in the US gives a bump for getting into elite universities, and the connections made there can be just as lucrative as the ones in colleges.
Holy crap. Some people are hit so hard.
Want to save a lot of money? Send them to a public school.
The article IS about a public school. State schools in the UK are not open to the general public, you must live in its catchment area to be able to get your kids inside and often match other criteria as well. Private schools are called public in the UK because they don’t have restrictions and are open to all members of public - if you have cash then your kids can study.
Is that from the Daily Torygraph?
I honestly thought it was The Onion at first glance
The onion is having a hard time at the moment because the real papers come out with shit like this.
Really now they just have to focus on people being held responsible for their actions, that would be obviously satire.
ok
Tory graph is not a serious paper - its pure propaganda.
And people wonder why I think there should be a wage cap.
