In my area there are quite a few independent schools who've capitalised on the fact that there are a small handful of others which are very good and there are also an awful lot of thick parents with a lot of money.
The bad private schools convince the thick parents that because the good ones have such a fantastic reputation then this is a reflection on the independent sector as a whole and so if they send their kids to the crap schools for an extortionate fee they'll get a good education (Which they won't), so the parents send their children to these schools (especially if they've already been rejected by the good ones). The kids then go to the crap schools and get told "if you don't get us some nice league table figures you're out", so they all get private tutors who then end up teaching them all the stuff their teacher's can't (My mother used to do private maths tutoring)!
These schools then make a big thing of their league table results by comparing them with the mixed comprehensives who all have the kids who wouldn't have had a hope of getting into the selective schools if they tried (my old school, and the school I was at for my last placement both have large special needs units, for example), so the comparison's totally pointless!
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The bad private schools convince the thick parents that because the good ones have such a fantastic reputation then this is a reflection on the independent sector as a whole and so if they send their kids to the crap schools for an extortionate fee they'll get a good education (Which they won't), so the parents send their children to these schools (especially if they've already been rejected by the good ones). The kids then go to the crap schools and get told "if you don't get us some nice league table figures you're out", so they all get private tutors who then end up teaching them all the stuff their teacher's can't (My mother used to do private maths tutoring)!
These schools then make a big thing of their league table results by comparing them with the mixed comprehensives who all have the kids who wouldn't have had a hope of getting into the selective schools if they tried (my old school, and the school I was at for my last placement both have large special needs units, for example), so the comparison's totally pointless!
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