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Heads at some of Scotland’s leading private schools warned proposals to dramatically increase their business rates bill would force up fees and make them more elitist

Bear in mind the jealousy and spite of the SNP in punishing private education for producing better results and to regard the ‘rich’ parents as cash cows. – Ingin Johnnie What about the class hatred and snobbery that motivates people to send their spoiled brats to private schools? – Steel Wheels The SNP are trying to start a class war – Mike Lowery How does providing an elitist education to the most privileged in society count as charity? It is nothing but a rich man’s tax dodge. – Kampung Highlander The politics of envy. – City Loon State schools are required to pay rates. Why should private schools be different? State schools educate the majority of children from less well-off backgrounds – far more than any private school. All schools should either pay rates or all schools should be exempt. No school should be treated differently. – Red Kola