or state David starky well Once Upon a
Time the sort of school that I went to
which was a local grammar school was in
many ways utterly indistinguishable from
the middle rank public school I had the
sort of Education that boys say at Sedar
up the road or heam down the road had um
I have the same kind of extracurricular
activities I have the same sort of
enthusiasm occasionally wild
eccentricity of staff I had the same
range of subject
um my school made absolutely no
difference one way or another to my
achievement or to how I was treated when
I got to Oxbridge the thing that has
made this terrible divide in our
education is the willful destruction of
excellence in the state sector that is
what compens diviz did it was done
willfully some of the motives were good
many of them were absolutely foul we
willfully destroyed our best schools in
the public sector and we've been running
behind hand ever since that is what
happened all right George Galloway well
uh if
uh if our if our state schools had the
money had the resources had the playing
fields uh that the uh private schools
have our state School playing fields are
almost all now sold off uh by this
government which knows the price of
everything and the value of nothing uh
then they would be many of them would be
the equal uh of private schools that we
perversely call public schools in our uh
language I speak all the time at the
very best uh of these private schools
where the cost to the parents is in the
case of Harrow £32,000 a year 35,000 I
think now at uh Eon and you can see that
the parents are getting what they are
paying for uh they're not paying it for
nothing
they have wonderful schools wonderful
teachers wonderful facilities and then I
go back to Bradford with the third worst
schools in the entire country and I can
see that we are not getting what we pay
for we are being starved of the
resources and of the creativity from the
center from the state that would rescue
these schools and rescue these children
who are of course uh the vast majority
so so I'm very candid about this
although they might cancel my next
invitation to Eaton or Harrow we should
abolish Public Schools starting with
abolishing their charitable status it's
unbelievable that Eon is a charity and
if you give money to it you get it
deducted uh from your tax uh and uh
charitable status start with abolish
want to destroy our best tools all over
again the same idiot cyle child has the
ever learn every child has Mantra that
were used you people never learn you're
in a cycle of Destruction all you can
think is destroying you people like you
I my it's what the word you people mean
it people like you
people FY qu F Sound and Fury signifying
I'm absolutely Furious because the
children in my constituency are amongst
the worst uh schools are at the amongst
the worst schools in the country and
that means when they leave school their
life chances unlike you uh will not
reach these elyan fields of Pop history
and uh and uh Academia that you have
reached and I'm absolutely Furious uh
about it and it's my job to sound off
about it and I'll tell you something for
nothing every child has the same right
to a good education of course
unconnected to how much money their
parents have
of course Alison of course hold on a
second The woman there you