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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Yep it's that old chestnut again.
As a product of grammar school education which gave him a lot of social mobility I'm a big fan of selective education, I would be interested in the perspectives of any teachers and employers that are here as to how true this story is.
Certainly anecdotally there's plenty of evidence that standards have declined, and indeed by some measures there are statistics that support this point of view.
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Standards have declined because behaviour and discipline have declined.This is as a result of children and parents now exclusively regarding their own rights as paramount.The rights of educators to do their job unimpeded and other students to get a hassle free education don't even figure.
Also business and would be employers are always complaining about this every decade..they said the same during the period of Grammar schools.They tend to see education as being only for turning out a trained workforce that they can then put straight to work without any expenditure on their part.