How much extra mortgage interest + associated costs will you have to pay over the lifetime of the mortgage vs the cost of private schooling?
I see your point but the house will either be rented out or sold so it is a short to medium term cost…the costs are still less than the £2k per month for our 2 kids to be in private and the duration will be far less than the 11 years they’d be in private.
nukeproof – that’s an option we could be looking into for a couple of years time (middle schools).
Took as about 2 years to figure out what to do for the best: many late nights and bottles of wine plus endless time on the internet. Good luck!
I’m probably going to open a can of worms but middle-class family church attendance is pretty good in our area due to a very good performing church sec’y school. Admission based on church attendance and commitment [:D]
When we first moved to our previous area the secondary school we had planned was exceptionally good but the catchment changed and we were right on the edge. We *may* have got in if we had attended church, volunteered for other church duties, helped out at the Sunday school etc etc but, although parents blatantly do do it, we felt uncomfortable with doing it as we are both not that religious. I suspect we would have ended up resenting volunteering and attending every week when really we didn’t want to be there.