RE, angry backlash as would-be MPs debate Darwen schools
Worst thing that happened to this country was getting rid of grammar and secondary modern schools, and lumping everyone together under the comprehensives, with the subsequent dumbing down of education to the virtual handing out of meaningless GCSEs and degrees not fit to be given free with breakfast cereals.
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