This in from the Isle of Wight Labour Party. Ed
Island Labour Party members are helping to launch the national party’s campaign against Conservative plans for selective education by talking to shoppers, leafletting and urging people to sign Labour’s petition on the subject.
The local party will oppose the setting up of a grammar school on the Isle of Wight.
Ed Gouge, the Constituency Party Secretary said,
“People are telling us that the last thing they want here is another schools reorganisation. A few people may have benefitted from grammar schools but actually, in the 1950s, a third of pupils from deprived backgrounds left grammar school without a single O level.
“The 80% who never made it to these schools were given an inferior education and this could happen again as the Government switches funds to set up new grammar schools.
“A recent report by the independent Education Policy Institute found that able pupils perform just as well in high quality non-selective schools.”
