How much do you think it really costs to send a child to a state school and have any extra costs surprised you?
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00:00I couldn't tell you the exact rundown of the costs and everything like that because I'm not super well-versed in that, but it's more expensive than it needs to be.
00:06I think the fact that we are forcing the taxpayer to pay through the nose for state schools when they have massively been underperforming and sort of giving us little quality over the years is not useful.
00:17It's not helpful to society, it's not helpful to the people who go to state schools.
00:20Uniform is not cheap, and also if you don't have a babysitter at certain times, it can be expensive to, you know, have to avoid going to work to look after your child.
00:30Like there's a lot of costs that go into it, not just the actual school part, it's also the at-home part as well.
00:35Moving away from sort of academicisation, you know, moving towards academies where private investment is going to be involved, I think that's a bad thing long term.
00:43I think the best thing for us long term would be to have public investment in schools.
00:46I do think there are certain things that are put in place to help the parents and help the kids.
00:52Could there be more? Definitely.
00:55But we do appreciate what is currently in place at least.