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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I'm from a working class background and I passed my 11+ - so was everyone else in my class and they all passed too so how the heck was it discriminatory against us?
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Willow I did not go because at the time I was not bright enough, so I and my like would only have held the bright kids up, I have no sour grapes as the attention we got enabled me to go in the third year, but it was at Haslingden not Accrington where my mates were. closing Grammar Schools was the begining of the demise of the standards we were expected to and most did attain.
Nothing whatsoever to do with 'the working classes' being disadvantaged,my parents could not afford the Grammar School uniform but I got cast of given by older pupils, that was the way of things, if you were prepared to work hard you succeeded, 'discrimination' rubbish. The upper middle classes did and still do send their children to private schools and why not If they can afford it and are prepared to sacrifice a few pleasures as they have to, nothing stopping anyone sending their kids, private if they are prepared to go without a few earthly pleasures, in my humble opinion.
