Bringing back the grammar school is the only way to give poor children a chance. And I should know!
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TWO OLD school friends and I are planning a very special party. It's a school reunion for the class of 1956 - 110 people selected to study at Kingsbury County Grammar School in North-West London more than half a century ago.
We survived the trauma of the 11-plus examination to win our prized grammar school places and on that first, windy September morning, we stood in the playground, knowing only a few of the others who'd come with us from primary schools.See the full content of this document
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Bringing back the grammar school is the only way to give poor children a chance. And I should know!
Looking back at those slightly bewildered children waiting to be allocated to their classrooms, there could be no finer example to prove Tory maverick David Davis's theory of how grammar schools 'rescued a generation of underprivileged children' than to look at what happened to us, the class of '56.
We were the pre-baby boomer generation, from diver...See the full content of this document
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