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yerself · 18-01-2011, 18:20

I reckon the fall in standards started with the introduction of 'Comprehensive' education. Before a certain Observer correspondent from Ossy dons his famous blue spectacles he should take a read at this.

Indeed, Mrs Thatcher (as she then was) is understood to have signed away more grammar schools between 1970 and 1974 than any other education secretary before or since.

And let's go further back still. Who brought in comprehensive schools in the first place? It is often - but mistakenly - believed that comprehensive schools were introduced by Harold Wilson's Labour government in the mid-1960s.

In fact, the first comprehensive schools were opened during the 1950s and early 1960s, under Conservative governments.

Full article: BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Grammar schools - why all the fuss?

18-01-2011, 18:20	#29
yerself God Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 3,212 Liked: 328 times Rep Power: 12996	Re: Education, education, education I reckon the fall in standards started with the introduction of 'Comprehensive' education. Before a certain Observer correspondent from Ossy dons his famous blue spectacles he should take a read at this. Indeed, Mrs Thatcher (as she then was) is understood to have signed away more grammar schools between 1970 and 1974 than any other education secretary before or since. And let's go further back still. Who brought in comprehensive schools in the first place? It is often - but mistakenly - believed that comprehensive schools were introduced by Harold Wilson's Labour government in the mid-1960s. In fact, the first comprehensive schools were opened during the 1950s and early 1960s, under Conservative governments. Full article: BBC NEWS \| UK \| Education \| Grammar schools - why all the fuss? __________________ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.