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Should fees guarantee exam success?

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A father from Staffordshire is suing a £28,000-per-year private school after his son left with just one pass at GCSE.Scott Craddock, 57, has served papers to Abbotsholme School in Rocester after complaining that he did not get his money’s worth by sending his son David to the school. Link.

So, if you've paid £28,000 a year for your son's education in a private school should you demand or expect exam success for your money?

I've heard worrying claims of similar attitudes at several newer UK universities where 2:1 and 1sts are becoming "far too common" since the introduction of fees. This is not across all UK universities - just a very specific group and type of university.
 
So, if you've paid £28,000 a year for your son's education in a private school should you demand or expect exam success for your money?

I've heard worrying claims of similar attitudes at several newer UK universities where 2:1 and 1sts are becoming "far too common" since the introduction of fees. This is not across all UK universities - just a very specific group and type of university.

Nabokov's term or this type of situation was 'Poshlust'.

29,000 USD (rough equivalent), to send your kid to a highschool? LOL . . . Sounds like something Frasier would do (actually, that is what Frasier did in the TV show).
 
geez...did the father graduate from there too

it took him five years to figure out something is wrong?:
He told the Uttoxeter Advertiser: “I paid £28,000 a year for five years for David to go to Abbotsholme.

”David was disheartened when he got his results. He said 'you spent all that money on my education and I walk away with one GCSE'. I sent David to Abbotsholme but in my opinion the school is not value for money in any way, shape or form.“
 
So, if you've paid £28,000 a year for your son's education in a private school should you demand or expect exam success for your money?

I've heard worrying claims of similar attitudes at several newer UK universities where 2:1 and 1sts are becoming "far too common" since the introduction of fees. This is not across all UK universities - just a very specific group and type of university.

Absolutely!!!!

However, those expectations should fall on your son's shoulders, not those of the school.
 
The student is responsible for results. The student either has the academic ability, the work ethic and the desire to succeed, or he/she doesn't and no amount of money and no teacher or system will change that.
 
Absolutely!!!!

However, those expectations should fall on your son's shoulders, not those of the school.

That's right.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

All the education in the world may be available, but if the user is unable (or too lazy) to absorb it? :shrug:
 
Nabokov's term or this type of situation was 'Poshlust'.

29,000 USD (rough equivalent), to send your kid to a highschool? LOL . . . Sounds like something Frasier would do (actually, that is what Frasier did in the TV show).

It's nearer $37,000 and that's per annum! He should have done better research!

Having said that, the expectation is that private schooling results in a Uni place, even now the products of those schools are overrepresented in university students and in business and politics.
 
The student is responsible for results. The student either has the academic ability, the work ethic and the desire to succeed, or he/she doesn't and no amount of money and no teacher or system will change that.

Methinks the father hasn't ever heard that view on the world. This family has some hard lessons in life to learn.
 
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