That will be interesting as, by definition, 75% of parents will find that their child goes to a non grammar school. Parental choice is not what you get with selection. When Margaret Thatcher became education secretary in 1970 she knew that polling evidence in her Finchley constituency showed 80%...
I didn't say just keep things as they are. I just don't feel there is any evidence that reintroducing grammar schools would bring about improvements. Neither is it true that policy has been unchanged over the last 40 years. There have been many changes over the last twenty years. Right now some...
I think you might find that many places in the existing grammar schools are taken by well coached private school children whose parents are delighted to save on fees for secondary education. There is also nothing significant about the age of 11. Many children develop academic skills later in...