A reminder that 2% of current grammar school pupils are on free school meals. National average = 16%.https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/879794033790418944 …
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Not a selective system anywhere in the world that has a representative proportion of poorer pupils. How was this going to be different?
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It depends what you consider "representative". Advantages of middle class homes (books, conversation, valuing school) explains a lot of it.
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Kids of parents who had a poor education themselves often likely not to have the home life or educational support that means they pass tests
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But that's not an argument to not have tests, it's an argument for different measures of intelligence & better primary education & parenting
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How do you measure intelligence without using tools that will be to the detriment of poorer families?
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And if you can improve primary education without making it selective why not just do the same for secondaries?
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How can it be irrelevant when you've just claimed m. class parents are less able to game the system where there are more grammars?
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You don't seem to get that grammar testing doesn't test intelligence do you. Rich kids will do better than poor kids stats show that.
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Not because they're more intelligent but because they'll be much better prepared. Grammars reinforce inequality,they don't improve education
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