The government has just given the go-ahead for the Weald of Kent grammar school to build a “satellite” school. Nine miles away. Nine! That’s another school, isn’t it? A new grammar school. Surely, that’s not on anymore? Well, there’s a catch. It’s an “annexe”. Ah. Of the old school. Ah.
A new grammar by stealth? Are the floodgates opening for more? No, not at all, Nicky Morgan assures us, this is just a “one-off”.
Big pigs fly high over Big Ben.
Tricky stuff all this – grammar schools, the 11-plus and selection. It still prompts much passionate discussion in the public and much cognitive dissonance in me – or some serious ambivalence.
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