This House Would Send Its Children to Private School | The Cambridge Union
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In the Chair: Imogen Schon, President (Lent 2014)
With widening differences between the rich and poor, would sending your children to private school entrench their privilege? Do you have a societal duty to provide for equality of opportunity or is your primary duty to your children? With 7% of the population, but 40% of Oxbridge students, privately educated, will you send your children to a private school?
We are hosting a wide range of interesting and well-informed panellists, which include:
PROPOSITION:
BARNABY LENON
Independent Schools Council Chairman, Barnaby Lenon was formerly Headmaster of Harrow School. He helped start a Free School in East London in 2012.
KATY RICKS
Headmistress of Sevenoaks School since 2002, Katy Ricks has taught widely in the private sector. She specialises in motivational teaching for young people.
OPPOSITION:
FIONA MILLAR
A British journalist, Fiona is a vocal campaigner on education issues. She is co-founder of the Local Schools Network.
ARCHIE BLAND
Senior Writer at The Independent, Archie Bland was educated at Winchester College and is now a vociferous opponent of private schools.
JAMES WESTHEAD
As External Relations Director for Teach First, James is responsible for building public understanding of Teach First and its vision of ending educational inequality as well as securing the funding needed to achieve it.
Self- entitled snobby students peddling morality and compassion to “poor, state school kids” AFTER achieving a place at Cambridge. You just couldn’t make this up.
Why don't any of these debates discuss the other reasons parents send thier children to private, such as them having a lovely early life, with access to a vast array of clubs, societies and extra curricula activities, better access to teachers, support groups, trips etc, etc. Yes private school is unfair but so is life, for people beg, stealing and borrowing to barely let thier kids go to private get so deflated when they are then told they are not realising thier dreams and spending thier very hard earned money on good things, but in fact that decision is oppressing poor children. It's horrid.
I'd like to see James Westhead walk through the corridors of Bethnal Green Academy dressed in black tie. That'd show him what state comprehensives are really like.
ok so state schools are fine (17:07), so why do we need to abolish provate schools?? i thought the argument was that the only good teachers are in private schools, so they would go to state schools if they were abolished?!?!
Femme in yellow dress is 🔥🔥😍😍
why not have English subtitle in there ? I hard to understand all (( why can help me check it please
What Archie stated at around 41:00 made me chuckle somehow. He may oppose sending his own offsprings to a public school, but as he says himself, they are the very institutions that retain the country's finest traditions such as choir music, field games etc, and for that very reason I beg the British society to continue to maintain those private school system. Just a viewpoint from a non-British national who admires its rich and splendid cultures.