"Fairer" Maybe - But Stupid.
A government-backed report had just declared that:
One option would be to phase out selective schools. Another option is to require the admissions authorities for grammar schools to take effective steps to ensure equal social representation amongst those who qualify on the 11-plus test.
Maybe it would create a “fairer” system. But it would also create a system that was made to fail. And fail miserably.
The comprehensive - aka no selection - educational system is the reason that “[a]lmost half of leading companies failed to find suitable graduates to fill vacancies last year despite record numbers of students leaving university” and that “[l]eading universities complained this month they have to give new students crash courses in literacy and numeracy - and even extend degree courses by a year - because many leave school lacking basic skills.”
No selection - externally or internally - means that children don’t get the education they need, as different children have different intelligence levels and speed of learning, and as such need to be grouped together in order to raise the effectiveness of their teaching and learning. This sort of system wouldn’t do anything to help the children themselves, but in fact ruin their education. This is unfair on them.
Thus, ending selection in education may be “fairer”, but it certainly isn’t fair. On anyone.
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