Janet
Street-Porter appears incapable of understanding that some people can see the
unfairness of grammar schools, even though they actually attended them (Grammars
get my support,15/04/17)."Why is Labour so hypocritical", she asks, when the
likes of Corbyn, McDonnell, Flynn and Abbott were educated in grammars? How can
she "have nothing but praise for a system", which classes around 80% of all
eleven year-olds as failures, and which takes hundreds of millions to fund at a
time when state schools, catering for children of all abilities, are being
starved of cash by the government?
It beggars
belief that Street-Porter can see grammar schools as part of "May`s ambitious
plan to create a fairer society", and that the comprehensive system has "damaged
thousands of young people". I hope that the people who enjoyed massive success
in comprehensives, and who value the work done there by overworked and underpaid
teachers, were as disgusted as I was when reading the
article.
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