Privately-Educated Pupils And Their Future Earnings

EDM number 227 in 2014-15, proposed by George Galloway on 07/07/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Incomes and poverty and Schools.

That this House deplores the inequality in the British education system which ensures that children from private schools will have earned £200,000 more than state school pupils by middle age, according to a survey carried out by the Sutton Trust; points out that these independent schools are bastions of privilege where predominantly affluent families can buy their children's financial success in later life by paying high fees for education; calls for an open access scheme to be imposed where all young people from disadvantage backgrounds are admitted for free to such schools; and demands that the Government removes the charitable status from all private schools as they are clearly anything but charitable.

This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.