Why as a private school boy I'm so terrified of being forced into a sink state school I'm so scared of sneering, workshy kids, drugs, knife fights - and no more golf or Mandarin, reveals this 14-year-old By Anonymous Published: 21:13 EDT, 13 June 2024 | Updated: 21:13 EDT, 13 June 2024 e-mail View comments Until a few days ago, I hadn’t considered that life in a state comprehensive would be anything other than a bigger version of what I’m used to at my private school. Yet now, looking down the barrel of larger class sizes, minimal sporting facilities and the possible threat of violence against me from other pupils, I’m filled with anxiety. When Mum and Dad first told me a few months ago that due to Dad’s financier job, we were moving from the Peak District to Kent, they had warned me that —although they have spent the last decade carefully saving and making sacrifices in order to give me the best possible education they could — with ever-rising fees and the competition for school places, they might not be able to guarantee me a place at another private school.
He could be sitting next to pupils who don’t care about doing well and — worst case scenario — may even carry a knife or drugs. Picture posed by models His parents explained that, with the likelihood of a newly elected Labour government imposing VAT on school fees, they cannot afford to risk enrolling him in another private school. Picture posed by models At the time, I thought: ‘Oh well, I�.
