Call You and Yours; Was a grammar school place your ticket to a better life?
London Mayor Boris Johnson has called scrapping the grammar school system a tragedy because they improve social mobility. Is he right?
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Secretary Theresa May has backed plans for an expansion of a grammar school in her constituency and London's Mayor Boris Johnson says scrapping the grammar school system was a "tragedy" because they boost social mobility. What do you think?
Were you helped up the ladder by a grammar school? Or are poor bright pupils locked out by better off children with tutors? Might they be better helped by bursaries to the fee-paying independent schools whose members dominate workplace elites?
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