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Yes, that's pretty much the point. How much better schools would be if all of the effort and money that went into private schools for the minority went into state schools for all. I don't blame the kids but the parents who make the choice are perpetuating the problem.
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You have articulated how I feel better than I would of managed. For me that is the route of the problem, if people put as much effort and money in to lobbying their MP over the state of their local state schools we could as a society achieve better outcomes for all instead of leaving so many behind.
greentricky
Surely the issue here is that private/public schools, and to an extent grammar schools do well at the expense of state schools, and at the extent of state school kids.
Kids that don't have pushy/well off/time rich parents aren't at fault, but with the current system they are get the worst deal.
School should be a leveller, not an opportunity to entrench social divides.