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No I don't think so, it just reinforces social immobility and especially in the case of education it basically guarantees a life of privilege for those who can afford them over those who can't. If you look at those at the top end of highly paid professions like lawyers and politicians, they are dominated by people who went to private schools, and they're also a lot more likely to get better grades and get into better universities. There's also the fact that private schools are detrimental to the quality of state schools, everyone should have access to the same standard of education I think, and while there some quite big discrepancies between state schools the focus should more be on improving that imo