Are They Attempting The Impossible?

 AINE FOX. AOL.

16 August 2022, The gap between disadvantaged children and their peers has seen “virtually no change” in two decades and the coronavirus pandemic has “significantly worsened overall outcomes”, a damning report has found.

Sixteen year-olds who are eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to earn good GCSEs than less disadvantaged peers and make slower progress through secondary school, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.

Blogger: poor results have many causes not the least of which is poor parenting. How do you address that one issue? 

Grammar schooling went a long way towards evening out the inequalities until our leftist friends decided that it was 'elitist'. Interesting that this 'elitism' took so many of the lower classes and raised them in ways that comprehensive schools never could. Both Mrs Blogger and I as well as most of our friends from childhood fell into this category.

The main reason for this was that the grammar schools set standards really high. Comprehensives have only ever pretended to.