Will Quince MP Takes Forward our Complaint

Dear Will Quince MP, Thank you for your response today. I also received a hand written note from, Polly Toynbee (Guardian Journalist) this morning, wishing me well with this campaign. This was extremely kind of Ms Toynbee and very encouraging. I have struck a chord with teachers who are incensed in some cases.

 If school children are going to be used to promote offers to parents, then these offers need to be vetted and other vendors need to know this route to customers is available. The school children have to bring back the leaflet even if the box requesting a Course Advisor (high pressure salesman’s) visit is not ticked.

Parents who cannot afford extra tuition for their children are therefore being embarrassed in the eyes of their child, and it does not seem right that children are being introduced to (educational) inequality at such a young age?  

I really thank you for your letter, and I hope you do not mind, but I have attached it and sent it to the magazine editors I have talked to (and these other contacts) and I hope it might find its way to Kevin Courtney and Mary Goosestead, joint chairs of the National Union of Teachers?

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Image: The Guardian columnist, Polly Toynbee.

This is what is said in the media about Exemplar Educations sister Company, The Student Support Service

Complaint articles:

Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/may/10/parents-protest-promotion-home-tuition

Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-saving-tips/9018047/The-2700-tuition-hard-sell.html

Mums Net: https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/primary/1612237-Has-anyone-any-experience-of-The-Student-Support-Centre

Image: Rt Hon Damien Hinds MP, Education Minister.

ABC Note: Our campaign to stop companies like Exemplar Education using school children to  promote expensive home tuition courses is gaining traction. Parents get locked into loan aggrements they cannot get out of despite changing circumstances. We await news from the Minister for Education the Rt Hon. Damien Hinds MP.

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