Most schools ask for some small things to be paid for by the parents. What happens with the next step - when it's either no heat or electricity or charging a small fee?
Will your GCs be in a school where parents are affluent enough to help and get the children sufficient education? Fees will certainly stop the children of the "underserving" poor from competing with those children coming from a "sense of entitlement" background. There will be no STEM teaching in some of the schools with children from poorer families; it's far too expensive. STEM jobs are well paid, this way they will be left to the children of the better paid. Isn't that exactly how the Conservatives think it should be? This government will steal children's education - something you can never get back.
This winter, parents will be asked by schools, by PTAs, to top up in a way none of us has seen before. Perhaps this will stop those arguing for the abolition of independent schools and get them to concentrate where it matters right now: on the drip, drip privatisation of state schools.
Fruit flies - help needed please.
Army horses loose on London streets
Have any of you got all electric cars? Pros and cons please.