The problem with private is that most of them are associated with a religious group. Being a Muslim DH is not keen to send his boys to somewhere like Kings and the only Muslim school with great results is awful. It asks children who they think are underachieving to leave. Not just that, but I have met some of its graduates and they were not nice people. And we did business with the school once and lost the contract because a member of the P&C put pressure on them to employ their BIL despite the fact that he provided a ****ty service for more money.
On top of all that there is the fact that I don't like religion in schools. Once you let religion in you end up with people who want the teachers to teach creationism and don't like the word vagina.
ETA - and also I have an ideological bias towards Public education
Last edited by Phteven; March 29th, 2013 at 02:19 PM.
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