If you’re *genuinely* angry about how few working class kids get into top universities & top professions, as I am, then you should support the expansion of grammar schools so poorer kids can get the high quality academic education they need to get into those institutions.
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This report appears to say (correct me if I’m wrong, I’m reading it intermittently on the tube) that grammar schools are of some use to kids who attend them but of no use to those who don’t
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It says as much. But that also reinforces my point that entry exams can be gamed and working class kids don't pass them and so benefit from Grammars. So the evidence that grammars give a leg up to poorer kids is sketchy at best. I generalise BTW.
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But surely grammar schools aren’t meant to give a leg up to poorer kids. They’re meant to give a leg up to brighter kids, including those from poorer backgrounds. Which (correct me if I’m wrong again), the report says they do
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Not what the OP was saying. The current advocates of it argue it is good for social mobility.
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