Angela Rayner MPVerified account

@SchoolDuggery As a parent I fail to see why I shouldn't be able to choose a Grammar school. One size doesn't fit all!

grammar schools are the antithesis of parental choice. The school chooses (or rejects) the pupil.

find me an oversubscribed school that doesn't have entry criteria.

you can choose to move into catchment or choose a feeder primary. You can't choose to pass 11+

if you have the money. My child wasn't tutored & passed. With that option, we as a family chose.

the other issue is that grammars take away the choice of all other parents to choose a comprehensive

why? We have 2 schools here & both are outstanding. You choose what you think will suit your child.

in an area with grammar schools, by definition, outstanding or not, true comprehensives don't exist.

it would be more honest to say they want more secondary moderns, but I never hear that, I wonder why!

@RescueSchools @JennyVeitch1 what can we do to stop this educational car crash we're facing?

Stick together & form alliances, for a start.

so much for May's social mobility plan....

Grammar schools were a greater driver of social mobility than anything dreamt up since. Only ability mattered.

actually statistically it has been shown that it didn't work for poor families. 1 test at 11 determines your future.

It should have been tackled by improving non-grammars not junking the best.

but by having state schools kids have been given a more equal opportunity regardless of background.

You need to concentrate on ridding education of the marxsist Frankfurt School of Teaching.