To really regret the whole grammar school thing cont'd

[Marni23]

Can we also stop pretending that the selective system works perfectly and nobody is disadvantaged and it's really important to protect the brightest 25 % from the mouth breathing knuckle dragging knife wielding "dregs"in the lower sets?. Please note. Mouth breathing, knuckle dragging knife wielding is exaggeration for comic effect. "Dregs" , however, is a term actually used by a well known, but now name changed, poster to describe children who failed the 11+.

Talkin it was Hak that used the term. In the thread.

Apparently quoting someone else I hasten to add.

Ok, I went to grammar back in 1980s I am from average middle class family. No tutoring in my day - everyone relaxed.

Now, my son in area of a grammar school that is apparently best in country - entire country can apply and it has about 3 exams to get in. Sod that.

I don't believe this shite that a kid can either be or not be 'academic'. What freaking trash.

We live in an increasingly divisive society and we kid ourselves that our beloved brats are 'academic' (or not) by the age of 9.

No wonder this country has gone down the spout when we write off so many of our children.

No "apparently" about it. Actually quoting. It makes me fume even now.