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The Spectator's Notes

The Spectator’s Notes

11 August 2016

1:00 PM

11 August 2016

1:00 PM

Those who want to revive grammar schools are accused of ‘bring backery’ — the unthinking idea that the past was better. But many of their accusers suffer from the rigid mindset of which they complain. They say that grammar schools ‘condemned most children to failure at the age of 11’, and that, even at their peak, grammars catered for less than 20 per cent of the school population.

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