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this article  Private education is unfair … even in Edinburgh
IF there is one conversation I would like never to have again
it's the one where a fellow parent bends my ear on the sticky
subject of whether to send their child to private school - or
the still-stickier topic of how to do it when you've got no
money.  I don't know why people want to talk to me about this.
Perhaps my English accent makes them think I must have gone to
private school (I didn't). Or perhaps it's because I live in
Edinburgh, and that's what middle-class parents think about
here. Either way, the whole topic makes me want to up sticks and
move - not to the charmed catchment area of Edinburgh's James
Gillespie's, but farther afield. To Finland.  Finland, a country
that in the words of one of my favourite Monty Python songs, and
common contemporary political ­opinion, "has it all". More to
the point, it has no private schools - aside from a few
privately-run religious establi