When I saw the news that private school fees had increased by 8 per cent this year and are now £6,000 a term on average, I thought: well, that could have been us. In 2019 I signed my son Tom* up to a local private school in the home counties when he was three weeks old and paid £50 to put his name down.
I was pretty confident I wanted him to go to that school. But just in case, I reserved places at a couple of other schools too because we didn’t know exactly where we would be living by the time he turned four.
Then, in September last year, my first-choice school emailed to say that Tom had a place. The deposit would
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