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Social Policy

- - - - Secondary Modern (75%)
      - Technical School (5%)
    - - Grammar School (20%)
  - - - Promotes meritocracy
      - Everyone works at the same ability
      - Functionalists favour the system
      - Middle class favour the system
      - Grammar schools still exist today and Teresa May wants to introduce more
    - - Negative labelling, 3/4 failed the 11+
      - Increasing inequalities e.g. few working class people in grammar schools, and pass mark set higher for girls due to fewer places
      - IQ tests unreliable
      - Some secondary modern pupils achieve higher grades
      - Technical schools were not available to many
- - - - Functionalists favour meritocracy
      - Marxists favour the decrease in social class inequalities
      - Feminists favour as there is no gender segregation
      - Promotes equality and social integration
      - Late developers benefit as ability isn't fixed
      - Grades improved
    - - Mixed ability increase disruption
      - Difficulty for teachers
      - Marxists still think their is social class divide due to catchment area and setting/ streaming
      - Large class size
      - Sets and streams increase labelling
      - New Right - lack of discipline, poor results, large class sizes and no skills provision
- - - - Tend to be low ability students
      - Finn (1987) - apprenticeships are cheap labour
      - Cohen (1984) - taught to accept low paid unskilled work