Always a a tricky topic but struck how many people in public eye say grammar school changed their lives for the better.
examples
Thatcher
Toby young
most of bbc newsreaders John Sopel. Andrew neil.
Various other mps who all went to grammar schools and are proud.
My nan had 5kids and only went to grammar and had the best jobs.
I know some say they unfair but do wonder if they in someway improved social mobility.
Of course its changed today.
Theres very few grammar schools none here or where I grew up.
Now seen preserve of middle class wanting private education cheap.
That the child has to be tutored within inch of life to get in and that those who went prep had advantage as state does not prepare for 11+.
To me it seems vastly unfair that they exist but not in every area.
Wondering if comprehensive is a failed idea and that they should have kept grammars but reformed secondary moderns,
Would all the people named above be where they are now if they went to comp?
What is it that grammar schools do that comps dont?
Theres that old chestnut a bright child will do well where ever they go.
Do the new grammar entrants today especially in super selectives need to be brighter than the kids who passed in the 50,s?.
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mam29 · 09/04/2013 12:21
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