Well, the article says “approximately 93%” go to proper schools, so I suppose it must be very slightly made up?
I also made a slight assumption that 100% minus 93% would leave us with 7% - but I didn’t go to Eton, so I assume my maths is likely incorrect.
Anyway, to be fair, I am making an assumption and I’m missing out on those who are home schooled, as well as those in referral units or special education or those who don’t go to school at all.
As a side note - do home schoolers and non-schoolers recieve special tax breaks for “not using up a state school space”?
Anyway, it can’t affect the numbers that much, as it still shows as “7% actually use these schools” on the government’s own website:
Note that this is your Tory friends from 5 years ago - it’s not the current Labour Government who are proposing removing the tax breaks on private schools.
You’re right actually - I guess all those Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg types all have about 12 kids each, so it’s likely an even smaller number.
I suppose other than the odd scholarship/inheritance bits here and there, I guess it must generally be somewhere between the top 1% and top 5% using the private schools system.
It’s not a tiny amount . It’s 20%.
And who are these ultra rich you are talking about ?
I mean the richest 7% of people in the country, who according to the article, actually use these special schools.
That’s a made up number , isn’t it ?
Well, the article says “approximately 93%” go to proper schools, so I suppose it must be very slightly made up?
I also made a slight assumption that 100% minus 93% would leave us with 7% - but I didn’t go to Eton, so I assume my maths is likely incorrect.
Anyway, to be fair, I am making an assumption and I’m missing out on those who are home schooled, as well as those in referral units or special education or those who don’t go to school at all.
As a side note - do home schoolers and non-schoolers recieve special tax breaks for “not using up a state school space”?
Anyway, it can’t affect the numbers that much, as it still shows as “7% actually use these schools” on the government’s own website:
gov.uk - Elitism in Britain (2019): “Just 7% of British people are privately educated”
Note that this is your Tory friends from 5 years ago - it’s not the current Labour Government who are proposing removing the tax breaks on private schools.
You’ve drawn a false equivalence between the richest 7% and the 7% that use private schools.
You’re right actually - I guess all those Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg types all have about 12 kids each, so it’s likely an even smaller number.
I suppose other than the odd scholarship/inheritance bits here and there, I guess it must generally be somewhere between the top 1% and top 5% using the private schools system.