News that the government has approved the opening of grammar school in England has reignited tensions about selective schools and their merits.
A new school in Sevenoaks was given the go-ahead, despite a legal ban on the opening of new grammar schools. Technically, the school will be a “satellite” development of an existing grammar school in Buckinghamshire.
We’d like to hear about people’s experiences of attempting to get into grammar school via the 11 plus – whether you ended up going to grammar school or not. How was your experience? Did you have to be tutored to have a chance of getting in? And if you didn’t end up going to grammar school, are you glad?
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