The Labour attacks on grammar schools begin
The Press Association is reporting the following:
- Every grammar school in the country should twin with a failing comprehensive to raise standards, a top Government adviser said on Wednesday.
Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, said grammars need to do more to help children from the poorest families.
He said he would not want to close the remaining 164 selective grammars in England but suggested that every one of them could form partnerships with weaker schools nearby. (the rest here ).
This is what most natural Conservative supporters knew would happen and part of what makes us so angry with Team Cameron right now.
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"Every grammar school in the country should twin with a failing comprehensive to raise standards, a top Government adviser said on Wednesday."
Yes, the intention of the scheme would be to clap a ball and chain round the ankles of the grammar schools and achieve equality by dragging everyone down to the same level.
"to raise standards", is a "forward looking statement", as they say in the press releases of US companies.
Or, you could say that the comprehensive schools which are successful should twin with failing comprehensive schools and the whole would be raised, thereby vindicating the comprehensive ideal. A much better plan. All those aspiring and committed parents who can't afford private education but have bought houses in the better areas, and done quite nicely from it, having their kiddoes mixing with the spawn of the underclass. It would go down like a cup of cold sick.
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