The private school parents plotting to ‘swamp’ state schools

For six weeks, politicians have been vying for our votes with promises of jobs, houses and a strong economy – but for one demographic, there’s only one story in town:A screenshot from one parents group that went viral recently advised the group to “register their child for their local state school…the National Union of Teachers are getting worried about not being able to provision children joining state and they will lobby to government.

One group has begun crowdfunding to finance a group litigation order. There has been suggestion of a demonstration planned for 9 July in London.Camila, a mother of two in Islington, whose daughter is starting at a local state secondary school in September, says she’s frustrated with the anti-VAT plotting she’s come across on local parenting groups on WhatsApp and Facebook.

One contributor to the Education Not Taxation Facebook group reports “students not returning in September ”. Several other parents post about giving notice to their children’s private schools, wanting to get ahead before the election “in case there’s no places left for them”. In shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ own constituency of Leeds, for example, all 46 state schools are at full capacity for Year 11 students, with just one school accepting pupils in Year 10 for the next academic year. According to the Department of Education there are 4,807 private school pupils in the city.

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