It is true that exclusive schools manage to instil a huge level of confidence in their boys. And girls, actually, though there are fewer equivalents. They seem to do that even for kids with no particularly elite connections, other than those they make at school.
And of course your old comprehensive could do the same. All it would need would be twenty grand a year to spend on each pupil, a teaching ratio of 1:8 at worse, a highly selective entrance exam and some extremely well-qualified teachers with lots of free time so they can do intensive marking and weekly one-to-one tutorial sessions.
Indeed, it's a disgrace that more schools don't do this, and it's undoubtedly on Cameron's "To do" list over the next few months. While cutting public spending massively too, of course.
Mind you, there's little that is more pathetic than an Etonian who hasn't made the grade. They also have this blinding sense of entitlement...
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Date: 2010-05-12 02:25 pm (UTC)And of course your old comprehensive could do the same. All it would need would be twenty grand a year to spend on each pupil, a teaching ratio of 1:8 at worse, a highly selective entrance exam and some extremely well-qualified teachers with lots of free time so they can do intensive marking and weekly one-to-one tutorial sessions.
Indeed, it's a disgrace that more schools don't do this, and it's undoubtedly on Cameron's "To do" list over the next few months. While cutting public spending massively too, of course.
Mind you, there's little that is more pathetic than an Etonian who hasn't made the grade. They also have this blinding sense of entitlement...