Of course I read your post and I fully understand people wanting the best for their kids but, to me, a socialist sending his or her kids to private schools is hypocritical.

I think it's fair to say that I'm not alone on this one:

From the BBC website:

"Labour MP Diane Abbott has said sending her son to a £10,000-a-year private school instead of a comprehensive is "indefensible".  In her first detailed comments on the controversy, she told BBC One's This Week programme: "Private schools prop up the class system in society. 

"It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school." 

But, she added: "I had to choose between my reputation as a politician and my son." 

When Prime Minister Tony Blair sent his eldest son, Euan, to the London Oratory, a selective school, she criticised him, saying people voted Labour because they believed in equality. 

And when Solicitor General Harriet Harman sent her son to a selective grammar school in Orpington, Kent, Ms Abbott said: "She made the Labour Party look as if we do one thing and say another." 

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3229453.stm

So, even the New Labourites doing it admit they are hypocrites.

Matt.