You are not the only person who has told me that the future of Britain is quite bleak. It's rather disheartening. Still, you are a fellow Londoner! That counts for something.
Muggles do seem to dislike their children. An infant of three in a school-room? I'm not certain whether to feel sorrier for your little brother or his professors! I had my first lessons with my tutor when I was four, but that was only a little a day, and it was my father's decision. I can't quite imagine how he'd react to the government trying to tell him that it was required! Our government fund scholarships to my school for mudbloods those who have the ability to attend but not the means, but they certainly wouldn't pay for everyone.
I do enjoy the trip to school! We take the biggest flying carpet we have, and my cousins and I pile all our trunks and things onto it and spend the day flying up.