State schools and Question time

What mediocre schools need as well as good teachers is the support of engaged parents committed to improvement.

What is disguised as ‘doing one’s best for one’s children’ in this case actually means buying them advantages over those with whom in later life they will have to compete.

IM0 particularly reprehensible when MPs behave in this way. They are the ones who decide the system for everyone else.

I agree Chewbacca

I think good education is a combination of well educated and inspiring teachers and a strong work culture. There are excellent state schools and poor public schools.

Quite chewbacca!

Personally I have no problem with sending children to either grammar or private schools. My problem lies in MPs who want to abolish such schools as being elitist, but who have no compunction in sending their own. I fail to see how this is anything other than hypocrisy.

It depends on your income surely , if you can’t afford to pay for your children’s education you have to send them to state schools regardless .

It partly depends where you live. My son went to a comprehensive that was reasonably good. He now lives in London, and the state schools near him are not good at all. He has (reluctantly) sent his children to selective private schools, at huge cost. I think he’s right. All he wants is a decent education for his children.

In an ideal world, all schools would be good. In the real world, it’s not the case. What does one do? Sacrifice the children’s education on the altar of an abstract principle?

Emily Thornberry

She sent her children to private schools and said - I want the best for my children and all children . This on being asked why she was against grammer schools !

As Kitty says, no-one should be surprised, but the hypocrisy of these people is jaw dropping!

Diane Abbott
Harriet Harman

Comprehensive schools are great for kids. Just not THEIR kids.

Valerie Vaz not Valley

Angela Rayner
Valerie Valley
Debbie Abrahams

All socialists. All send their children to private schools.

Why are you surprised?