| Topic: | 'Abolishing Eton' and the impact on Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Andy Jones | |
| Date/Time: | 23/09/19 09:17:00 |
| Just looking through the proposals being made by Labour for private schools I was trying to think through how this might work out in the local area. I've counted five private schools in a fairly tight perimeter in the north Ealing area. This is already an expensive place to live but if all of a sudden free education was made available at these schools with their generally excellent facilities then there would be a huge rush to acquire property in the catchment area. There are clearly problems with social mobility in this country but making private schools free doesn't necessarily deal with the issue. It is potentially a massive wealth transfer from the taxpayer to the relatively well off. I know this is a policy of a party that isn't going to form a government and they are giving the game away by proposing things that aren't practical. |