A Real Tonic

The Government’s “G&T” (Gifted and Talented) programme is apparently supposed to include the most academic ten per cent of pupils. I am sure that they are delighted to be singled out from their peers like this, only to have to return to normal lessons, to the playground, to the canteen, to the bus home, and so forth. So how about this for wheeze: why not have schools specifically for that identified ten per cent, or, better still, for double or even triple that number, but no more? Whatever might such institutions be called?