Independent Schools or State Schools

Everybody wants the best for their children and will go to incredible lengths to get it. When I decided to go back to work after having my first child, I looked around for suitable childcare which as everyone knows is very expensive, one of the options I looked at was a local private school that had a nursery department and takes the children from the age of 2 years 9 months, provided they were out of nappies. Having costed up a proper nursery, childminders and the school option at the time the private school was, believe it or not, the cheapest and they offered crèche facilities between 8 and 6 so that was the option we took. The ...  Read the complete review

As someone who has attended both state and private schools I thought this would be an interesting subject to write on. ====My Background==== I went to the local state primary school from the age of four till I was seven. As my sister went to an all girl's private school, I really wanted to go there too. I did go there, but only for a term as it shut down! We were then sent to another pirvate girls school which shut own after three years. I was then sent to another one and my sister went to a mixed privatye school. ====The Benefits of State==== Now admittedly I was very young when I went there, but from what I can ...  Read the complete review

Local education Athority (council) % of 'A' % of 'B' % 5 A-C Av points score Average A leval points score Toatl educaton points score Total socio Pts Ratio herpothetical Independent school 85 15 95 65 30 170 285 0.596491228070175 All maintained 0 0 ERR Hartlepool 10.8 16.2 40.4 35.5 16.7 127.05 64.8 1.96064814814815 Darington 15.6 15.6 47.2 38.4 20.1 145 78 1.85897435897436 Northumbria 13.2 18.1 38.8 39.1 16.7 130.85 75.8 1.72625329815303 Gateshead 11.6 19.8 49.4 40.3 16.1 142.05 74.4 1.90927419354839 Chesire 18.8 22.2 55.8 41.6 18.9 156 100.8 1.54761904761905 Trafford 19.8 27.4 57.2 42.2 21.7 163.9 114.2 ...  Read the complete review

It’s the question that every parent has to face – how should I educate my child? Not only is it a very difficult question to answer its also a very personal one. I attended no less than 5 different schools, from Primary Age up to leaving school at the age of 18. Some might argue that I actually attended 4 schools but my very first school changed its name and its whole set-up when I was still there. After leaving school I went to work in a Government run school in Zimbabwe which I thought was fantastic. The first school was a small Primary school in a little village in Cleveland. As I was still very young I remember very little of this school but I ...  Read the complete review

The gap between state and private education when examined carefully is pretty significant. Independent schools receive more public money than state if they offer scholarships to a small percentage. The successful state comps are nearly always in middle class catchment areas and often go grant maintained. This allows them to “select pupils”and then encourage higher positions in the all important league tables. Often pushy parents will move to be in the catchment areas for the top comps causing house prices to rocket and the objective of the type of schooling to be utterly annulled. The point of comprehensives was that it would scoop up all ...  Read the complete review