why do people hate private schools?

Uh...people aren't unhappy wth the fact that they select children based on ability - they're unhappy because children whose families have high income get better opportunities...at private schools and that bright children whose families aren't affluent don't get the opportunity.

Bright children would end up becoming successful the same way a bright child at a comprehensive school could potentially become successful. If parents have high income, it isn't certain that they would take their children to private schools.

Bright children would end up becoming successful the same way a bright child at a comprehensive school could potentially become successful.

Surely segregating children on ability is more reasonable than on the financial situation of their parents?

Putting the most intelligent students with the least intelligent students = the least don't get the attention they need + the most don't get the attention they need.

Putting all the least together = better improvement, as they can have a lesson targeted at their own level.

Putting all the most together = better improvement, as they can have a lesson targeted at their own level

Whereas splitting it up by financial situation doesn't really have any logic behind it. It's a pre-determined factor that just governs that one child will have a good standard of education, another child won't. It's more 'unfair'.

Yeah, but they have less opportunities at a 'normal' school

My school have completely messed up my A Level options so they've had to change them around, and now I have to try and self teach FM.

At a private school, I doubt the same thing would happen and a lot of people I know at private schools comfortably take 5 subjects for A Level as well, meaning they would get more support from teachers and most likely do better in exams.

Are you saying that this has nothing to do at all with how you'll do in life?

Thank you! There is a constant assumption that everyone is rich which is absolutely not the case - for example my parents thought long and hard about sending me to private school or state school knowing that it would put a strain on our finances. It sounds awful but had it not been for the fact that both my grandparents died when I was in year seven, I don't know if we could have continued to afford it through sixth form without the added help of inheritance.

I was sent to private school because I was very shy and quiet and my parents thought that by sending me to a school where classes are much smaller was the best option otherwise I may have slipped under the radar.

There's always going to be a mix of people like that, in private and state schools.

Yeah, but they have less opportunities at a 'normal' school

My school have completely messed up my A Level options so they've had to change them around, and now I have to try and self teach FM.

At a private school, I doubt the same thing would happen and a lot of people I know at private schools comfortably take 5 subjects for A Level as well, meaning they would get more support from teachers and most likely do better in exams.

Are you saying that this has nothing to do at all with how you'll do in life?

Of course it does. It actually depends on what you class normal schools as.

It's not as easy as that...and that doesn't address the point of inequality, does it?

No form of segregation is reasonable. I have to say it is only an act of separation not segregation. A parent may want their child to be in a more competitive environment therefore taking their child to a grammar school. So if everyone should be educated in the same environment, do you believe single sex schools should be allowed? It is not even a matter of splitting regarding financial situation.

Personally, I think that the way schools are functioning are fine, however the only issue is that some schools need to improve the facilities they provide and the teaching quality. If there was only one kind of school, that would only result in chaos and disagreements.

I don't think single sex schools should be allowed, just like I don't think 'black only' or 'white only' schools should be allowed. That' seems, to me, a perfectly reasonable equality to have government regulation for.

So, are you saying that everyone should have the same job and earn the same wages?

No form of segregation is reasonable. I have to say it is only an act of separation not segregation. A parent may want their child to be in a more competitive environment therefore taking their child to a grammar school. So if everyone should be educated in the same environment, do you believe single sex schools should be allowed? It is not even a matter of splitting regarding financial situation.

White and black only school idea is ridiculous. I think single sex schools should be allowed and everyone should be entitled with a right to determine what school they want to go to.

White and black only school idea is ridiculous. I think single sex schools should be allowed and everyone should be entitled with a right to determine what school they want to go to.

Oh my gosh. That's obviously not the same thing. GENERALLY, you don't earn a job because of how much your parents earn.

Could you elaborate on why you think segregating on sex is ridiculous, but gender is not?

So what makes splitting people up by race any different to splitting people up by gender? Why should one be OK and the other be ridiculous?

I'm sorry but I can't elaborate on a claim I have not made.

White and black only school idea is ridiculous. I think single sex schools should be allowed and everyone should be entitled with a right to determine what school they want to go to.