In the end, it was the sports kit that persuaded us to pull the plug: two technical training tops at a cost of £90. A directive had come down from the senior school that all pupils must be in new gear from Kukri (official supplier to county cricket clubs and Commonwealth Games England) by the start of the Michaelmas term. I replaced what our sons had outgrown in the school’s uniform shop (five items: £200), but baulked at spending another £100 when their old training tops still fitted.
School fees are already unaffordable – and that’s before you factor in VAT at 20 per cent
Our sons had been in prep school since we bolted from London after the lockdowns to a part of the country we barely knew. The prep school was an attempt to assuage our anxiety about what they’d missed during home-schooling in a household with a new baby sister and parents who worked throughout.
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