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Grammer Schools (How successful was the system? (Basically it was great if…
Grammer Schools
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Arguments For
Possibly the best argument – we’d see the withering away of private schools – whose going to pay £10K a year when you can get a similar quality of education for free?
Comprehensives are not good enough – we need more, quality education to prepare our brightest kids to compete in a global job market.
Proponents say they will provided a ladder of opportunity for poor, bright kids.
We already have selection by mortgage, grammar schools may help remedy this.
Arguments Against
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The 11+ favours those who can afford private tuition – so all we’re going to see is the reproduction of class inequality
Number 1 is a myth – the reason so many bright working class kids seemed to benefit from a grammar school education in the 1960s was because of a change in the class structure at that time
Standards are currently improving, so do we need to disrupt schools AGAIN with ANOTHER policy upheaval?
What are they?
The big expansion of grammar schools came with the 1944 Butler Education Act, which launched the tripartite system – every pupil sat an IQ test at the age of 11 which determined which of three types of school they went to for the next 4-5 years –
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In short, they are schools which focus on providing an academic education based on selection by ability, typically through an entrance test at the age of 11.
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