selective schools

[swatiraohnlu]

In most countries state schools teach children of a wide range of abilities together, in mixed ability (comprehensive) schools. In some countries, however, secondary education varies according to ability, with the most able children attending selective schools (grammar schools in the UK, Gymnasia in Germany) until the age of 18 and then going on to university. Children who are judged to be less academic attend different schools, receive a more vocational and technical education and typically leave at 15 or 16 to look for work, with little prospect of higher education. This kind of system applies in most German Lander, and in parts of the UK where some areas (including the whole of Northern Ireland) retain grammar schools despite a general move to comprehensive education since the late 1960s.

DO you support selective schools?

 

[swatiraohnlu]

The pupils of all abilities benefit from selective education. Rather than aiming at an ill-defined and vague medium, selection allows specialist teachers to stretch the able or give proper support to students with learning difficulties.