Summer offensive

Private education in Surrey is still going strong, with Kingswood House just embarking on their 2018 summer offensive, seemingly an annual event. At least, it seems to have been for the last few years.

This snap being taken from the bottom of the school field (or what is left of it), from Manor Green Road, with the HQ invisible, over the hill.

PS 1: interested to read in this week's Economist about the trials and travails of the UK privatised railway industry, now largely in the hands of foreign public rail companies. Perhaps the Tories are learning the hard way why privatisation is not the panacea it was thought to be in the golden days of Leader Margaret. Perhaps there were, after all, reasons why the railways were nationalised in the first place - other than reasons of left wing political correctness.

PS 2: private education can be tricky too. It is not so many years since Parsons Mead School in Ashstead closed rather abruptly, leaving a couple of hundred or so little dears in the lurch. According to Wikipedia: 'The Vernon Educational Trust therefore took ownership of the Parson's Mead School site, along with £2.2 million in liabilities. The Vernon Educational Trust sold the site to Oracle Homes Residential Ltd in August 2007 for £16 million under section 36 of the Charities Act. There was press speculation over whether Danes Hill School would benefit from the sale'.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/05/marrons.html.