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Should we abolish private schools? - YouTube
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the thing that is most distorting our
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education system is the existence of
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private schools say at school graduates
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are still likely to earn thousands of
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pounds less than those who are privately
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educated what we're seeing is entrenched
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privilege why are the people at the top
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why are they ever going to want people
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like you or I taking the jobs that they
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want to go to they're privately educated
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sons and daughters we will have an
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apartheid education system in this
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country unless we do something drastic
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I've learned a stream of evidence that
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private schools helped make our country
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unequal only 7% of the UK are privately
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educated but a disproportionate number
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of PI's some of the most influential
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jobs whether in media are law or
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politics I mean take on new prime
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minister xx to be educated at one school
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Eton but now a number of people are
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asking if this is fair and if they
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should exist at all as a state school
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teacher why would I not want the
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absolute best for the young people in
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front of me why don't they deserve to
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have small class sizes luxurious
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facilities access to this incredible
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network of alumni and I think that would
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make our society much better and much
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fairer and abolishing private schools is
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key to that
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but before gate abolition we need to
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know what private schools are and how
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they work well the origins of Britain's
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private schools date back into the
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medieval period the late medieval period
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with a series of charitable bequests to
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educate the children of poor and rising
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middle class families so they started
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out as charities but gradually they
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expanded in the Victorian era when they
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became increasingly for the middle
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classes and they cost money this trend
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continued into the 20th century and to
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avoid being labeled elitist in the 1960s
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they've rebranded as independent schools
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fast-forward to now and how inclusive
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are they
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that's 6,000 pupils paying no fees at
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all out of out of the half million
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pupils in independent council schools
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turns out that means only 1% of people
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who go to private school offer the most
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disadvantaged backgrounds but most
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people can't afford to go private rising
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school fees now amount to 50% of an
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average earners wage which is why
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intakes are dominated by the very
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wealthy so while funding has been cut to
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the point in that state schools are
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having to use crowdfunding and Amazon
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wishlist to pay the basics a tiny
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proportion of people get access to the
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excellent support and almost unlimited
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resources that the private sector offers
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plus private schools act as a direct
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route to prestigious universities and
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networks to some of the world's most
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powerful people but discussing what to
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do about private schools isn't about
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attacking the choices the parents make
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it's about an elite system that FasTrak
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certain children so what can we do about
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this broadly there's a few options we
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could do nothing which means there's no
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point watching this video we could
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reform the system to try and make it
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fairer or we could get rid of few paying
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schools altogether let's look at reform
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first and the main point here is
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although they mostly educate the
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well-off over half of all private
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schools still operate in charities today
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has there ever been a more deserving
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charity
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many private schools say they earn their
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charitable status by offering few
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reductions or free places in the form of
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bursaries so the simple measure could be
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determined that they often law but that
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would still only be a limited number of
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people and these bursaries are often
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used to top-up fees of people who are
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already pretty wealthy we even found one
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school willing to offer financial help
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to families so long as they are less
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than 120,000 pounds
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also as charities private schools don't
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pay for business rates so getting them
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to pay the full whack which is something
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state schools already have to do could
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bring an extra 105 million pounds per
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year
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another idea could be to charge v80 on
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private school fees since they're
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currently exempt that could bring in an
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extra 1.5 billion to the Treasury or you
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could just strip them of their
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charitable status entirely but what are
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something even bigger like abolition
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look let's not get too dramatic here
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because the idea of abolition isn't
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about destruction
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it's about unifying and integrating our
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education system that's what they did in
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Finland their education system needs to
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be a mix of private grammar and state
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schools not so different from ours but
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in the 1970s the government decided to
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abolish private schools it was actually
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the Finnish political establishment who
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decided that their segregated system was
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actually causing too much device Ignis
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that they needed to establish a common
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school we don't see education as an
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industry we see education as a as a
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basic human right for everybody and
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that's why all education is free in
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Finland it's against the law to run a
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private school or private university
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with one of the most equal education
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systems in the world Finland is an
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example of what could be possible the
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neighborhood school is the best school
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because all the schools in Finland they
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are all equal and what that means that
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by making the rich kids go to school
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with everyone else they grow up with
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those other kids as friends and when
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they become wealthy adults they have to
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think twice before they screw them over
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critics say abolition takes away a
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parent's right to choose but does
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everyone get to make that choice what we
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have now is is paratah cracy which is
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where educational success depends on the
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wealth and wishes of parents rather than
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the ability and effort of actual
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children choices are underpinned by
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resources and if you're poor
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disadvantaged you just don't have very
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many choices none of this is going to
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happen overnight
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and there's no magic bullet abolition is
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just one part of a much broader change
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that's needed from funding our schools
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properly to getting rid of all forms of
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selection but one thing is pretty clear
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if private schools stay as they are then
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nothing is going to change thank you for
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