As with so much soundbite politics there is a grain of logic behind it, but the big picture is missed. There is clearly a benefit to streaming children to their interests and abilities, but grammar schools/secondary moderns have been proven time and again to be a failed model in that respect. The hard evidence always points to them being a less effective solution for a variety of reasons, e.g. poorer children not being coached for the 11+ and maybe developing a school year later etc etc. Lots of reasons. There is mountains of research into this stuff out there, and proper research, not simplistic bullshit from politicians. The current situation is deeply flawed and can certainly be improved. We have ended up with a situation where wealthier people tend to go to better schools, where religion has far too much influence etc, but May's half-baked dream of returning to a Trumpton past is destined to fail. In fact it will never make it through the HoL.
The whole point of modern comprehensive education is to stream on the fly, i.e. provide education targeted to that specific child's abilities and interests. It is a far more logical and neuanced method of achieving the best result regardless of background. The problem in recent years is some spectacularly dumb politicians (some within Labour, though more specifically Michael 'idiot' Gove etc) set a series of absurdly ill-thought-out targets without even understanding the basic concepts let alone being prepared to listen to highly qualified experts within the profession. That we now have schools setup and run by belmtards such as Toby Young is just terrifying. May also looks set to relax legislation regarding religious brainwashing in schools too. A very scary time to have children. We should be looking at countries that do this stuff much better than us, e.g. Norway etc, and learning from them. Sadly we have a hard-right government and a population largely incapable of thinking beyond the simplistic reactionary soundbite.
