Conservatives proposal to abandon their support for grammar schools and support academies

Commenting on the Conservatives proposals to abandon their support for grammar schools and support academies instead, Steve Sinnott General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said:

“I welcome the fact that David Willetts has seen the light on selection. Selection at eleven is totally unfair. It categorises youngsters into a two tier education system.

“I regret the fact that David Willetts fails to see the capacity of academies to create a new two tier system with academies increasingly seen as quasi grammar schools.

“He might ask himself why the Government’s expansion plans for academies have been resolutely opposed by parents, governors and teachers alike.

“David Willetts would find much more fertile ground if he concentrated on achieving a good local school for every child”.

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