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Top of the class: Labour seeks to emulate Finland’s school system
- mytailorisrich 7y agoLabour is attacking private education for purely ideological reasons and this article tries to paint them as caring for education? That's preposterous but not surprising for The Guardian. Currently 615,000 pupils attend private schools in the UK. This means families who finance state schools through their taxes but do not use them. Scraping private schools would therefore mean having to create 615,000 extra state schools places without any additional tax revenue to finance them. This would mean an additional £3billion+ a year for the education budget just to absorb the extra pupils at current levels. If they are prepared to increase the education budget by that much then it could go to improving existing state schools instead if they just would let private schools alone. Labour is interested in ideological purity, not education.