Watching news programmes, I have been interested in why the Government is so insistent on producing more grammar schools. I thought the idea had died out about two years ago.
Now I think I know why. I don’t think this is about education. I think it is about property values and voting intentions.
Some parents will pay much more for a house if they are told a grammar school is about to be created in the area, also people with children will vote for a political party that promises them a grammar school.
So it’s not education, it’s the old money snobbery; will we ever become a truly democratic society?
G F White
Coppice Hill
Bradford on Avon