CONSERVATIVE spokesman Damian Green MP has made statements favouring the grammar school system. Does he wish to bring back the 11-plus?
Grammar schools were all right for the minority, but the system left the other 80pc roughing it at Secondary Modern Schools.
Have the Tories ever run a "Bring Back the sec mods" campaign?
"Fair competition" is almost a contradiction in terms; but the 11-plus turned unfairness into an art form.
Max Nottingham
St Faith's Street, Lincoln
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