The Return of the 11 Plus.

Does this remind you of anything?

The country’s brightest state-school children are to be "cherry-picked"
at the age of 11 under new government plans to speed the development of
the top-performing five per cent.

We could, ooooh, I don’t know, send them to different schools. Call them Grammar Schools or something. Bit of a weird idea I know but why not?

4 responses

  1. I’d love to link to this, but could you link to the source of your quote?

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    dearieme

    5%. Roughly the proportion that used to go to Uni before the deluge. Wot larks.

  3. When is the government going to realise that grammar school systems are just as bad as comprehensve school systems when the system is imposed on everyone – whether they want it or not?
    I say that there should be no system – just independent providers and let parents choose the type of school they want.

  4. After eight years in power, Labour might just be starting to improve education across the UK!
    Excellent news.

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