bridge wrote:
If I could afford private for all my children that is what I would be doing.
Parents sending their children to private schools got what they paid for results wise. I know of children that failed to get into the local selective schools who have far out performed what might have been reasonable to expect (given what their parents had said pre-lockdown). The parents were absolutely delighted. It was not surprising to hear university admissions saying that this was going to be the poshest (

) intake they have ever had!
Yes, not tarring all indies - or their parent body - with the same brush, of course, but last year was a complete godsend for
those parents, wasn't it? Although there must have been the odd private school where the parents found that what they had paid for instead was the honesty and integrity of the teaching staff and SLT. But I expect they got over it eventually.
Universities are apparently expecting a higher than usual drop-out rate amongst the 2020 intake, so not necessarily such a godsend, at the end of the day, for all the students concerned.