A mother-of-five who’s outraged by a seven per cent fee increase at her child’s private school was met with little sympathy when she took to Mumsnet to vent her fury.
The unnamed woman took to the British parenting forum to say that she doesn’t feel the ‘whole private school thing is good value’ but that you become ‘trapped’ once you send your chlid there.
Complaining about ‘CEO-headmasters’ who declare they have ‘a vision’ for schools, she continued: ‘Is this the norm now? I realise prices are going up but shouldn’t they try and contain costs/be as lean as possible? Apparently they need to build their bursary funds and go green.’
However other users were stunned by her comments, saying it was ‘in line with inflation‘, and if she wanted, she could take her child out of the school.
A mother has complained she can no longer afford her child’s private school after it increased its fees – after confessing her other child already goes to a state school (stock image)
The mother-of-two said private school isn’t ‘good value’ and added she felt her child was ‘trapped’ – later saying she blamed the headteacher for the fee increase
However the mother-of-two couldn’t help but complain, saying private school parents should be ‘more vocal’ about issues
Explaining her situation more clearly, the mother-of-two wrote: ‘My DC’s [dear child] school is putting up school fees by over 7pc from September 2022 for existing parents, more for…
