If what you claim is true then advocates of abolishing Grammar schools should explain why 100% of pupils should, as a matter of policy, receive an inferior education. (View Post)

Well I went to a comprehensive and we were also streamed. The difference is that we were streamed into 8 streams and only the top 2 did O levels whilst the other 6 did CSEs or nothing at all. My kids… (View Post)

Actually the Sutton Report into Grammar schools nailed that myth. It showed there was no reduction in results for Comprehensive schools in Grammar school areas compered to those without Grammars. So … (View Post)

Now that my personal crisis of the last 24 hours is over I can, like Mike, sing the praises of the people working in the NHS. About 1am I got call from my sister to say my Mum was unwell. She had sev… (View Post)

I think implicit in CR's proposals - as reflected in the increase by 30% in education budgets - is that it would involve the recruitment of a lot more teachers and individual teachers not being … (View Post)