yeah we do have this disagr every time LOL
My school was one of the better state schools in a pretty shit area.So funding was shit, expectation was too.
Teachers ranged from ok to utterly abysmal - or they fucked off never to be replaced during the middle of our A levels. And the school REFUSED to replace them!
From people I spoke to, places like Berks, Surrey, Herts etc do seem to have better state schools, but still a fair way off private ones.
Eton is 28k a year, plus extras - which can push it up to 50 odd k Im told. And they get Downs Syndrome victims to Oxford and Cambrdige.
You make a good pt that shit teachers are never sacked. We just locked them in cupboards.
(Or was it the pottery kiln....?)