Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
there may be two or more children in that family.
In the example I'm most familiar with, there was. For various reasons including their own school experience the parents decided their children were going to a fee paying school and they'd 'make it work somehow' (with a sense check on a yearly basis) and make it work they did. I'm aware of a number of stories like that, I really think you (and RP) are coming from an ideological angle rather than a real-world one where (I will admit, reasonably well off but definitely NOT elite) families make a hard choice