St Albans School head defends private education (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

Mr Grant chooses a bizarre target for his attack. Parents who could afford to send their children to private schools but don't have some right to feel they are doing the right thing, both for their children and for society in general. This is because the existence of large numbers of private schools, available in the most part only to the wealthy, discriminates against children on the basis of their parents' wealth. This is unfair.

It is completely understandable that parents with some money should choose to spend that on their child's education. But in an ideal world the private sector would be assimilated into the state sector, so children can have more equal access to high quality education.

I know a lot of teachers in the private sector would prefer their school to be part of the state sector, as that would be fairer and make their jobs even more worthwhile. I wonder if Mr Grant recognises this feeling.

Your article is inaccurate, particularly the headline. Andrew Grant did not "attack state education". What he did attack was the hypocracy of rich parents who choose to send their children to state schools and then play "holier than thou" with other, admittedly also mainly rich, people who choose to spend their money on the best possible education for their children, rather than on expensive playthings.
This will strike a chord with many parents who choose to spend their hard earned and highly taxed income on securing the best education for their children: the moral tone adopted by some parents who choose to spend their money differently can be quite sickening.