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#11Plus

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺<p>We listened to a BBC Radio 4 documentary yesterday evening on the impact of the 1944 Education Act. This brought in the 11plus exam and formalised segregated state education by 'intellegence'.</p><p>Gosh there was a lot to unpack in that hour.</p><p>One comment was that it was more about ensuring a supply of workers than about ensuring social mobility - it was about keeping working people in their place.<br>Yes, some people did get a grammar school education they might not have got, but they were the exception (I was one).</p><p>The research underpinning the 11+ exams was faked.</p><p>It's interesting that my wife's school had written her off as someone who would go to a Secondary Modern school - but politics intervened and she went to a Comprehensive school. She ended up with more, and better, qualifications than I did. Yet I went to a Grammar School and have stumbled through education, only discovering my niche 30+ years after I left school.</p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/11Plus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>11Plus</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/SecondaryEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondaryEducation</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/bbcradio4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbcradio4</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Reform grammar schools and ditch the GCSE treadmill – here’s how Labour can fix education in England | Fiona Millar | The Guardian<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/grammar-schools-gcse-labour-education-england" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/aug/13/grammar-schools-gcse-labour-education-england</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/GCSEs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GCSEs</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Exams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exams</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/SelectiveEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelectiveEducation</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/GrammarSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrammarSchools</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Baccalaureate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baccalaureate</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/LeavingExam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeavingExam</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/PrivateEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateEducation</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ClassCeiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassCeiling</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/11Plus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>11Plus</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/SocialSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSelection</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/EveryChildMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EveryChildMatters</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/AbsentPupils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbsentPupils</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/GhostChildren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GhostChildren</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Tawney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tawney</span></a></p>
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