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So both your assertion that I’d ‘misread’ and your subsequent correction were entirely wrong, and it does clearly say, ‘our ethos at Dulwich is one of Equality…’

As for ridicule and Independent schools. It wasn’t really ‘ridicule’ was it? I was just drawing attention to the irony of a school claiming to be based on an ethos of equality charging between £26k and £56k per pupil per year when the average UK salary is, I believe, around £28k.

Do I have a problem with Independent Schools and those who use them? I recognise that any right minded parent is going to want their child to go to the best available school. It’s interesting though, as I’ve mentioned before, the level of facilities that such schools can offer and, if one reads a little further, where they ‘boast’ at Dulwich about their average class size being just 21.
Education is an area that, as you know, I do know a little bit about and I reckon that if more of the low achieving schools in Derby - or the country as a whole - could offer such reduced class sizes and vastly improved resources and facilities then we’d go a long way towards curing society of some of its ills.

So, to come full circle, I don’t have a problem with people wanting the best for their kids…I do have a problem with the huge inequality and self perpetuating nature of the current system. In ‘manifesto terms’ I’d like to see the best for ALL kids.