Brickbat: Pay for the Privilege

In the United Kingdom, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is launching a plan to increase the amount private schools pay for required inspections by the government's Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services, and Skills. The government currently pays the majority—effectively two-thirds—of inspection expenses, but Phillipson argues that taxpayers who send their children to state schools should not have to subsidize what she calls "private businesses." The change could potentially triple the fees private schools pay for inspections.

Comments

[SQRLSY]

Tits for tats and tots, and tats for tits for tots! If the Almighty State shall issue tattoos (bar codes?) to the private-schools tots (kids) to certify that they have been properly inspected, at great costs to the private schools, then the private-school owners should be able to do the exact same expensive things to the pubic-school tots! Tits for tats, twat's good for the goose is good for the gander, and all that! Let's snot just pander to the gander, let's also pander to the goose, AND the moose, and everyone else! Either twat's fair is fair, or get OUT of my hair!

[Mickey Rat]

The Labour Party ideologically does not want private schooling to exist. Putting extra costs on such schools is a passive-aggressive way to accomplish that.

[SQRLSY]

Non-pubic schools SNOT sufficiently cuntrolled by Government Almighty might snot sufficiently instill in the students, a Deep Love of, and Yearning For More of, Government Almighty, and THAT is something up with which we swill snot put!

[mad.casual]

Putting extra costs on such schools is a passive-aggressive way to accomplish that.

There's an alternative interpretation that's not passive-aggressive. The LP is instrumental in setting the standards that require these orgs making this a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation (just like teacher's unions in the US). A cat toying with a mouse isn't being passive-aggressive when it doesn't kill it outright. After all, without standards for private schooling, how is the state supposed to fail to vet Muslims and immigrants who weren't taught by the British school system that it's illegal to rape little girls?

[Mickey Rat]

Telling Muslims they cannot rape British Christian girls is Islamophobic, don't you now?

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's taxpayer money all the way down.

[Chumby]

Parents that send their kids to private schools aren’t paying into the system funding said inspections?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

So massive tax cuts for those who don't want to subsidized public schools?

[Wizzle Bizzle]

If I were cynical, I would say this is another way for the UK left to target those dirty Jews and the gross Christians who defend them.

[Bubba Jones]

What would happen to the government schools if suddenly all the private (public in UK-speak) school children showed up to the government classrooms?

You'd think they would want to encourage people to decline their government-paid schooling.

[TJJ2000]

Pretty easy to decode.
"required inspections indoctrination by the government"

[Think It Through]

I didn't know that Britain's private schools had inspections.

I didn't know that Britain's inspections of private schools incurred costs.

I didn't know that the costs of Britain's inspections of private schools could be assessed to the schools.

I am not sure why to care about any of this. This the most local of "local story" I have ever seen on Reason.

[Davy C]

Does the cost of the inspections exceed the cost of educating the students in a government school? The government is making out like a bandit already.