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I suppose I'm only trying to illustrate that a lot is down to you and your own personality/wants/needs rather than the school you go to.
Bullshit.
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opinion is divided on the matter
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I suppose I'm only trying to illustrate that a lot is down to you and your own personality/wants/needs rather than the school you go to.
Bullshit.
Fairly sure there's a good bit of research indicating that the single most important factor in kids' educational attainment is how engaged their parents are.
Obviously that's 'single most,' with many competing, there are confounding factors and plenty of outliers, and it's educational attainment rather than future progression, so it adds little more than 'it's complicated ...' to the discussion.
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FWIW I passed my 11+ in 1976 and went to a state school which had been a grammar school in Tory times but under the then Labour govt was a simple High School although it was boys only (circa 600 boys) and very much run on grammar school lines.
It is actually a very good school that is now a grammar again and I would not get in now as the competition for places is massive and I was only reasonably intelligent rather than very clever (yes, very subjective but measured against my peers).
I didn't particularly enjoy it but didn't hate it and came out with 3 very ordinary A-levels & joined the banking profession and am still there.
My two sons now 30 & 28 went to the local monster comprehensive (1800+ boys only) and also came out with decent A-levels. The eldest went to uni and got a Geography degree and the second has just finished his accountancy exams. Both has what I would describe as decent jobs and are happy.
I suppose I'm only trying to illustrate that a lot is down to you and your own personality/wants/needs rather than the school you go to.