Shine a light on socially selective comprehensives | Education
<strong>Letter: </strong>The Sutton Trust should look at even greater unfairness such as funding inequality for different areas, writes <strong>Yvonne Williams</strong>
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<strong>Letter: </strong>The Sutton Trust should look at even greater unfairness such as funding inequality for different areas, writes <strong>Yvonne Williams</strong>
ROSS CLARK: For as we have witnessed over the past few days with ITV 's drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, there is nothing that grabs at the human soul as much as raw, blatant injustice.
Top comprehensives are more likely to admit middle-class pupils than grammar schools in some areas, research has suggested.
Some 155 comprehensive schools have been identified in a report as being “more socially selective” than the average grammar school in their admissions.
Random allocations can be one way of preventing schools from becoming socially segregated, as more affluent parents push up house prices near good schools.