Critics obsess about lack of poorest kids at grammars. Only 1 in 3 getting free school meals get 5 good GCSEs at comps. Worry about *that*.
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I know you have a radio show to do, but that's nonsense.
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We are a rich country and yet huge numbers of children under-achieve in comps and have done for decades. Explain that.
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I know you care too. But this policy just stops them addressing the real issues of under-achievement.
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We both want the same thing but, no, it doesn't. X
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andf how exactly are Grammars supposed to improve the education of those who don't get in?
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they improve the chances of those that do. Who want to succeed, rather than be held back by the feckless disinterested ones. Simples
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so you didn't answer the question and you assume a kid who doesn't get into a grammar is feckless and disinterested
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Last year the comp in my town got appalling results. I asked LEA Director how many complaints they had received? None was the answer.
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Wouldn't you be better off asking why poor kids in London do better than less poor kids outside London. You cut through more crap doing that
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It's not possible to be an "ordinary working family" and get free school meals. The minute you get any working tax credit you lose fsm
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Is there? How have you comparatively quantified this angst?
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It's a peculiar/telling assertion. When one tells ppl to redirect their attention that doesn't negate the validity of their initial concern
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Grammar schools don't work they don't offer social mobility, why do you want to bring them back i don't get it?
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probably had a teacher who didn't like them & never got over it
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true
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Rubbish: Comps haven't failed. Sea-change in attitudes to education is required.
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All schools should be like grammar schools
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