I would comment that schools are there to educate, not to socialise people, and I would rather have a little social awkwardness and a well-educated population than an allegedly classless society (which isn't really classless at all) and a badly-educated population.on the need for vocational training:
The Technical Schools, proposed in 1944 but never built, should have been built. Many, many children do not benefit from academic education but do benefit greatly from vocational teaching. Our economy and society continue to suffer daily from this lack, which is one of the reasons for the importation of huge numbers of migrants to do important jobs that our own school-leavers do not know how to do.More on the British grammar schools:
As for the eleven-plus, it is not by any means the only way of selecting pupils. Germany has selection in all its states - recently reintroduced in the former East Germany (proof, by the way, that you can bring grammar schools back, in this case after an absence of 50 years). But it is done by mutual agreement between home and school, and those who believe they have been unfairly allocated are given the chance to prove themselves. There is no reason why pupils could not transfer later, at any age, if they show themselves to be suited for grammar school.
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