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State teachers opt for private schools
Posted on 22nd February 2008
Teachers in state schools admit to sending their own children to private schools for a better quality of education, an article in the Times Educational Supplement has revealed today.
It spoke to a number of teachers who had chosen this route and said that while they were expected to defend the state sector, they had to do what was best for their children.
They emphasised the small class sizes and choice of extra-curricular activities in the impendent sector, which are often not available in over-burdened state schools.
Many had struggled to get the money together from teachers' wages for private school fees, but said the sacrifice had been worth it.
Andrea Caish, a headteacher at a state primary in south Gloucestershire, explained that she had sent her two daughters to an independent school because in a state school "you are reduced to the level of the lowest in the class and if a child doesn't behave then everybody suffers".
As increasing numbers of parents are unable to get their child into their preferred local school thanks to lottery systems, it is likely that many of them will turn to the independent sector.