Should private schools be abolished?

We have fought to overcome inequality in relation to sex, social class, race and many other elements, but private schools remain. Private schools represent inequality because only pupils with well-off parents can afford to attend these schools hence, disadvantaging the other pupils.

Furthermore, besides private schools showing a distinction between social classes they jeopardise the education of state school students by prioritising private school students over the other students. In this sense, private schools are unjust and need to be abolished to continue the success in moving towards a society which is fairer and sees equality between all its citizens.

Abolishing private schools is not going to abolish inequality between pupils as this inequality can be shown every day just in state schools. For example, bullying is extremely common in all schools whether they be state or private. Bullying represents inequality between pupils as often it is the result of one pupil being different to another. Additionally, teachers may treat their students differently depending on their intellectual ability or their behaviour. Thus, this can affect equality between pupils. pupils.  
Furthermore private schools in no way jeopardise the education of state school students, in fact according to liberal democrat Simon Hughes, private school intake to universities must be cut. So actually it can be seen that state school students are being prioritised$1  
To summarise, private schools are not the only means of inequality between students and so the abolition of these would not completely diminish student inequality. inequality.