News report from BBC
Hurrah! Finally we are reversing the nonsense of the comprehensive system. I failed the 11+. We keep hearing how it is wrong to brand children "failures" at age 11 and it is complete twaddle. It did not harm me and I got a good education.
The fact is that I believe it is a very talented teacher that has the skills to teach an all ability class, even trying it must be tiring. It is surely fairer on all that we allow teachers more flexibility and allow those of both high and low abilities the opportunity to develop with their academic peers rather than struggling to keep up with the brightest or dragging the brightest down to the average.
Having said this I also believe that children should be receiving a mix of vocational (skills) and academic education from the age of 11. By the time they reach 14 they can then take informed decisions about whether they want to follow an academic path or a skills based vocational route.
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