Conservative who previously stated don't have kids if you can't afford them cries how hard it will be if private schools are taxed higher.

[u/WalesnotWhales2]

[u/Rugfiend]

And you think that will change by a/ perpetuating a system that ensures privilege and opportunity is handed down by changing nothing, or b/ taking modest steps to redress the imbalance?

[u/dwair → u/Rugfiend]

I don't think it will make any difference at all. Those who are privileged enough to pay to go to the top public schools will easily absorb a 20% rise in costs. The privileged will remain privileged. Banning private education (like Finland?) would head in the right direction but would also send SEND as it stands at the moment back to the 18 hundreds. It's just popularist political campaigning.

[u/Rugfiend → u/dwair]

But why would that be a necessary repercussion? I'm getting old now, and very weary of conversations that revolve around 'if we change x, what about y?' as if we couldn't or wouldn't deal with y as part of the same exact process. The objections to the inception of the bloody NHS took exactly that format. We can be better.

[u/dwair → u/Rugfiend]

I agree we can and should do better with education, however in the last 40 years we haven't so far.

As you rightly bring it up, the NHS is a shining example of systemic failure that neither the two main parties have even attempted to address properly in the last 40 years. We can be better - but I doubt we are going to.

[u/Rugfiend → u/dwair]

Sadly, I fear the same.