Grammar schools: the £70,000 good-news letter
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Grammar schools: the £70,000 good-news letter
Interesting article in the Telegraph this morning:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/46 ... etter.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/46 ... etter.html
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£118,644 gross cost
The £70,000 cost is after tax. The pre tax cost (assuming 40% taxpayer and 1% NI) is £118,644.
we put our daughter through private school and it did work out at around £70,000 + - trouble is every year the annual cost jumped £600 (at least) so trying to working out a budget at the start of the whole procedure was pretty pointless!
Needless to say the joy of cancelling that direct debit when she left last year was huge!
I am not saying the education wasn't excellent - she is a very grounded, sensible and lovely girl with some great friends.
It's just the pressure of that payment, which you can't simply stop because it's a tough month, has now gone and it is a relief.
Needless to say the joy of cancelling that direct debit when she left last year was huge!
I am not saying the education wasn't excellent - she is a very grounded, sensible and lovely girl with some great friends.
It's just the pressure of that payment, which you can't simply stop because it's a tough month, has now gone and it is a relief.