Congratulations to Peter Hain. We now have the lowest % of young people going to university from working class homes in any time since the effective abolition of the Grammar Schools. Peter has found a way to attack the problem - he has promised to close down the 164 remaining bastions of genuine quality in our education system.
As usual, for Labour and the left, their egalitarianism is more important than real people.
Of course local democracy allows people to remove their grammar schools - and they haven't. So democracy must be overruled.
Incidentally, the so-called elitist arguments are flawed. Research in both Wales and N. Ireland have revealed that Secondary Modern pupils in areas with a Grammar School outperform equivalent pupils of similar ability levels and social background from comprehensives.
LINK: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/LSE_SuttonTrust_report.htm
