How city's 'overcrowded' state schools will cope with an influx from the independent sector

More outdoor classes and off-campus teaching amid warnings VAT on school fees will see 2000 Lothians pupils switch from private institutions

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It wasn’t the day of reckoning that parents at the Capital’s biggest private school had been expecting.

The prospect of a new Labour Government imposing VAT at 20% on school fees had been causing some anxiety for months, but this had nothing to do with Sir Keir Starmer, writes Euan McGrory.

The news that dropped into their in…