How many people would send their children to Kingsdale if they had the money to afford to send them to Alleyn's purely on a matter of principle? It's all well and good saying that there shouldn't be a private and state sector in respect to education as in increases the class gap but until state education improves parents will try to do the best for their children i.e. will pay huge amounts of money for a private education. As to whether Alleyn's contribute to the community, they offer numerous scolorships and bursaries. The national youth theatre uses the new Edward Alleyn building, sports clubs have access to all of the sports facilities. The put on free or certainly reduced cost music events either by the pupils or by professional musicians. Every Thursday there are students from year 10 upwards who do community service by spending time with and helping the elderly, and by helping at a nearby school for the disabled. As previously said money is raised for many charities, many of them selected on the fact that they help in the local community. So there is some congestion twice a day (which is likely to happen at most schools), so there may have been fireworks which ran on a bit late one night. All schools will have their faults but i think Alleyn's contributes a lot more to the community than it damages it.
