Fee paid schooling: Is it worth the money?

I have a suspicion that the longer term effects of hothousing children and depriving them of parental support may be to make them less able to cope with university ...?

'We found that the students - the independent school students - who were the least successful in fact went to the highest fee-paying schools.

I could cite the anecdotal evidence of what I saw when I was at uni, but I won't. Suffice to say that I think that these guys, Naylor and Smith, are on to something when they say,

this effect is because A-level results are a product of ability and coaching but once at university, ability comes to the fore - and the boost provided by the independent schools' coaching does not live on.

Quite.
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