New grammars?

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Surely new grammars are dead?

Let's hope this is the death knell!

Hurrah! No way they can push them through now, they needed a majority of 30 and they were TM's baby so no one else cares.

Best news ever.

I'm really really hoping so

Hopefully.

All I want is for whoever gets in to fund ALL schools correctly.

Most people reckoned that TM couldn't get it through the Commons with a majority of 17. So hard to see how it could be done now.

I am angry beyond belief that this idiotic woman, in the wake of national upheaval, which was a symptom of massive division in our society, then spent huge money not on sorting out regional and rural jobs and economy, but straight in there with the Grammars Green Paper. Which was never made public, and which she declared she would over ride because she wasn't interested in evidence.

Grammars: cream off the few. Spend money on Grammars and leave the rest under resourced. We saw the education spending plans, how was it going to be different?

What a distraction.

Awful, awful woman.

The wonderful Laura McInerney:

twitter.com/miss_mcinerney/status/873054139101495298

Does this mean I can start celebrating?

While I'm still very worried about how my dd's comp will be damaged by cuts/teacher shortages, at least this is hopefully going to be one less thing to worry about. We are in a fully comp county (Surrey.) I've been so impressed with dd's school and i really didn't want it and other comps to be turned into a secondary modern while money was squandered on new grammars which may have drawn even more teachers away.

Phew.

Can't imagine that grammar expansion will be high on this morning's agenda. Overall result probably very good for general funding.

Grammar schools was Nick Timothy's idea and he has been revealed to be an almighty bellend who has lost the Tories their government. He was also behind the dementia tax. No one will touch this now. It barely got coverage in the election as it was.

So pleased Theresa May did not get what she wanted! Thought of more Grammars was really depressing me. Do hope this kills the idea and the money that would have been put into starting them up is put into making true Comprehensive Schools better.

No, I don't quite see how mathematically it can now be pushed through.

More funding generally would be nice, also a second EU referendum.

Yes that would be good

Yippee! Proves you can't just "tell" us what will be done to our schools and NHS. She'll have to listen now surely. She'll be dizzy from having to change direction on so many policies!

Ed Dorrell and TES are sure that new grammars are dead, with a "succinct" comment from unknown source.

www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/if-election-result-means-one-thing-education-its-plans-new-grammar

Is that true that it might end the national funding formula like it says in that article? Does that mean there won't be the cuts or not?

If there will probably be another election soon, they'd do well to avoid obvious vote losers.

So you think they won't make cuts?

So you think they won't make cuts?

Sorry not sure why that posted twice

A national funding formula isn't making cuts so much as redistributing the pot. The old method of distribution was also very unpopular. If Theresa May wants to get approval ratings up she needs to find more money to put in the pot - the method of distribution is less important. Perhaps she should adopt some of Labour's very popular policies re. Corporation Tax etc :)

ie not so magic money tree.

I thought the vast majority of schools were facing cuts though regardless of it being redistributed?