The plans will also include the ability for bright children to join grammar schools, not just at 11, but at 14 and 16 as well.
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She added: “It’s very weird”.
But schools minister Nick Gibb told the ResearchEd conference in London on Saturday that more selection would end the stranglehold former private school pupils have over top professions such as law and medicine.
“I was incredibly lucky when I was a young girl growing up”, she said. I want every child to have the kind of opportunities that I enjoyed. She declared: “I want Britain to become the world’s great meritocracy”.
Because parents want choice for their children and there are some children who want and need to be academically stretched.
South West Devon MP Gary Streeter said the freedom is an important feature of the “education landscape”.
In a major speech today May criticised Labour “dogma” and chose to lift the ban on new grammars as part of a series of schools reforms.
“Grammar schools are nothing more than window dressing. By focusing on grammar schools, the Government is choosing the least likely path to take us towards a country that works for everyone”, he said.
The grammar school plan is not mentioned on the Tories’ 2015 election manifesto.
Dr Wollaston, however, has expressed concern about the impact of increased selection in faith schools.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech about possible changes to secondary education at the British Academy in London Friday Sept. 9, 2016.
Both Labour and the Lib Dems have threatened to block Mrs May’s “regressive” educational agenda, claiming they will lead to “a more unequal country”.
The two opposition parties lack strength in the Commons, but outnumber Tories in the House of Lords.
“The Liberal Democrats are the party of education”.
“Today’s announcement from Theresa May represents a return to the class-ridden Britain of the 1950s”.
“These proposals are a distraction from the very real issues facing our schools”, he said.
‘Like all charities, schools with charitable status are held to account by the Charities Commission and they must show how they fulfil their charitable obligations through public benefit in the context of their own particular circumstances’.
The Canary has already discussed some of the major problems with Tory plans to bring back grammar schools, looking at the myth of social mobility related to the institutions and the fact that, while intelligent children may do better at grammar schools, people who don’t get in tend to do worse than they would otherwise.
Universities would also be forced to support attainment in the state education system, by sponsoring a state school or setting up a new free school.
Labour’s John Asworth said it was “utterly ludicruous” for the PM ‘to stand up and talk about creating a great meritocracy and then in the next breath announce a return to grammar schools’. “It is time for Government to step back and take a long hard look at what is needed to ensure that all children are given the education they deserve”.
What is the evidence base on which you’re making the argument for new selective schools?
As he points out: “If a small rural school serving its community decides to become selective….what does that mean for children in that community that do not pass the test?”
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She addressed those Britons whose vote to leave the European Union in June, she said, was a rejection of establishment politics that have failed to improve their lives and was a clear message: “They will not be ignored anymore”. “[But] there are some wonderful, wonderful state schools, with outstanding results and outstanding teachers and we should be looking at that concept rather than the label of a school”, he says.
