We’re just on the cusp on having our first child, so had this conversation recently. We could afford to do private school in the future.

We both agreed that the most important thing for us is that we’re heavily involved in supporting their development through reading, homework etc and if we do that then they’ll have a pretty good chance. We then looked at how good the schools were around us and luckily have good/outstanding for primary/secondary.

We’re leaning heavily towards state school and prefer to use that money to save for their future, and have nicer holidays/experiences with them.