Not really over state grammars. Maybe it’s selective schools or parents invested in their kids’ education. Oxbridge offer ratio of interviews to places insane for state and PS.
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State grammar schools also should not exist (and barely do), but I wonder if you have any data at all to back up the idea that private schools confer no greater advantage than grammar schools do? Or if you can offer any sort of justification for why kids with affluent parents should be advantages?
aug 31, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
That should have said the same. Do you propose banning the reading of books to children and the use of tutors or taking kids on holiday or educational trips? Can’t be buying an advantage after all. Same with houses in good catchments.
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Can you please make a serious attempt to answer the questions I asked?
aug 31, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
PS parent does not equal affluent (see data from UCL below) so taxing them doesn’t fix anything. How and why do you propose we stop parents trying to do the best for their kids with the resources they have, state or private, tutors, books, trips?
sep 1, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
If you are stupid or facetious enough to think that graph answers anything I asked and require an explanation of how buying books and buying a segregated private education are fundamentally different then I don’t think we have any more to discuss, have a good one.
sep 1, 2025, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view
Oh dear. Insults now. Why are the left such bullies?
sep 1, 2025, 6:29 am • 0 0 • view