***Petition to Close all Grammars *sign here

I went to an ofsted failing comprehensive school. The stories I have about my education would shock you. It has left me pretty disadvantaged in all forms of opportunity but if you have the drive you can achieve anything.

My school was a dumping ground and there was no discipline in classes. Students used to run a muck. My school was so rough that there is even a permanent police station on campus. People used to smoke in class too. Sometimes even drugs.

I didn’t learn a hell of a lot but I worked hard and I finished with decent grades. I now go to college which is not much better than school in terms of organisation but I am still working hard and achieving decent grades. Next year I am going to university.

It has been a struggle. I am working my way up from the bottom. No one has ever given me anything on the plate. I have worked hard for everything I have got. Just because I had it hard growing up I wouldn’t wish it upon other people. I say keep grammar schools. Good on the people that are enough privileged to go on them.

If I was a parent and I worked hard all life and I could afford it I would sure as hell send my children to one.

I went to an ofsted failing comprehensive school. The stories I have about my education would shock you. It has left me pretty disadvantaged in all forms of opportunity but if you have the drive you can achieve anything.

My school was a dumping ground and there was no discipline in classes. Students used to run a muck. My school was so rough that there is even a permanent police station on campus. People used to smoke in class too. Sometimes even drugs.

I didn’t learn a hell of a lot but I worked hard and I finished with decent grades. I now go to college which is not much better than school in terms of organisation but I am still working hard and achieving decent grades. Next year I am going to university.

It has been a struggle. I am working my way up from the bottom. No one has ever given me anything on the plate. I have worked hard for everything I have got. Just because I had it hard growing up I wouldn’t wish it upon other people. I say keep grammar schools. Good on the people that are enough privileged to go on them.

If I was a parent and I worked hard all life and I could afford it I would sure as hell send my children to one.

Sounds like you would have benefitted from a grammar school!

Oh but wait, then it wouldnt be fair on your smoking-in-class/drug-taking friends, cant have them upset now can we Yawn?......

You summed it up in your last sentence actually...grammars are not fit for purpose since they no longer do what they were set up to do. Educate the poor, but bright.

What a negative thread. Very British. Instead of having a "sign here" petition to raise the standards in state schools we have a petition to shut down the country's performing schools. How sad.

yeah, sure i'll petition against grammar schools which were introduced to close the gap between state and public schools

What about the people in grammar schools who can't afford to go to public schools?

Yeh its apalling that brighter children be taught together in a grammar school, but its perfectly fine for them to be in a top set in a comprehensive.....

If you're against academic selection, how are you going to select the top set?? Sums up their dumb beliefs really!

Catholic Grammar schools are a rarity, unless they are fee-paying. The reason they are a rarity is because we believe that every child deserves the best education available, not the few.

If every school had the sort of ethos that Catholic schools have every single child would not only receive a good education, but also emerge from them a well-rounded and confident young person.

But then, I am biased somewhat.

I go to a Catholic school, it did nothing good for me I and left a less 'well-rounded' person and so do most people.

The nearest Grammer School on the other hand is the complete opposite. You should be arguing for Private schools to be closed.