smaller class sizes which they have, how to state schools catch up? it’s how to state schools catch up? it s a reall how to state schools catch up? it s a really good question, one of the main reasons to send your child to private school is you are buying them this education and all the advantages you accrue for that. there s a clear necessity to fund the education system properly, i live with a primary school teacher, i used to work in a school for a very brief period of time, so i know teachers are really struggling with class sizes and over testing, as has already been mentioned. there is a real unhappiness around this huge focus on testing and what that means for children in the state education system and how they navigate that. i think this is not only about private schools and state schools, as the guardian headline highlights, but it s about poorer students, students on free school meals, black pupils those students that are already marginalised in multiple ways, how the sys