Two very important points were made late last night on BBC One.
On This Week, Alan Johnson pointed out that two people were already in prison thanks to the activities the great man, Tom Watson.
And on Question Time, Rod Liddle pointed out that in the areas that still had grammar schools (the English state schools system is the furthest in the world from "one size fits all"), the state primary schools were barely used by what we had come to call the middle classes.
They were instead paying to have their children coached, tutored, prepped and crammed for the 11-plus, in the commercial sector. Guess who then dominated the state grammar schools.
There is mercifully no chance whatever of the extension of that state of affairs to the country at large.
There is no plan to change the law to allow new ones, even Gove rejected the original call for this annexe, its situation is unique (in a town sending children 10 miles to an existing grammar school in the same authority, you'll never find that anywhere else), and no party that exists beyond the Internet is going to suggest changing the law. Nothing to worry about here.
ReplyDeleteWell, indeed.
DeleteThe middle-class domination of the grammar schools needs to be seen in the light of just how poor much of Kent is.
If they were going to do what their proponents say that they do, then they would certainly do it there. But they don't.
It is no wonder that Farage could not get elected there, nor Reckless re-elected. As you say, then.