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 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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We're all agreed on that. Under-investment in education. But you know grammar schools aren't the answer, you have the figures.
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Don't grammars enable the brightest at comps to have access to better teachers /learning environment,
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It's simple - labour don't care if state schools are crap, as long as they can make the Tories send their kids there too....
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Have a good Thursday though, and I do know this is an issue where you really want to do the right thing.
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The richest in our country are getting richer while the gap between rich and poor grows larger. Yet need to enter the real world.
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Perhaps Comps results being poor is why they want their kids to go to Grammars and the two are inextricably linked?
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explanation is simple, nobody really cares! Teachers and parents just accept that some pupils will fail,
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Mostly down to white, working-class attitudes to education.
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Because you can't throw the black board rubber at children any more and learning by route (the old way) doesn't work..(clearly)...<sigh>...
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Not about schools, more about child's ability, we're not all brain boxes
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Have you not noticed that education has changed since you were at school? Would be more than happy to show you round some excellent comps.
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