Too many people prejudge Grammar schools as elitist. If one looks at them in a horizonatal sense, rather than topping a vertical tree, the Grammar school model engages and extends the higher ability pupil more than the comprehensive, secondary modern or city acedemy.
My concern is that higher ability pupils, if not engaged and extended, make a pupil many fold times as cunning and disruptive than low ability pupils if there intellectual needs are not met and harnessed. Believe me, I was one. Being part of a mixed ability class, with a less able/ mid calibre teacher would have disengaged me from learning, and into desruptive behaviour. Comprehensive schools identify G & T, but can’t satisfy
Rob Olivier, Norwich, United Kingdom
Shit the bed. Someone should harness your genius before it’s too late. You cunning little sausage.
3 Responses to “There Intellectual”
My wife and I went to horizonatal classes before our son was born.
Mmmmmmm, G&T! With a lime wedge, please.
Believe me, Rob, you still are one.