I'm not trying to push this as some socialist thing either, this should be the standard regardless of your political beliefs. A basic human right such as education should not be lessened or bettered by social class. There should be no such thing as a comprehensive, a charter, a grammar, an academy - just. a. school. Or better yet, homeschool! I don't understand why this hasn't caught on in Britain as it has in the US. State schools clearly can't provide us with the education needed to function in the modern world given most juniors can barely read or write and parents have gotten used to helping their kids with school work over covid lockdowns. Homeschooling was once the norm for education, where parents would arrange groups and private tutors. On average, homeschooled kids are much happier and perform far better academically than someone state-school-educated.
I understand that some parents may not have the time but what's the alternative? Send them to a rough decaying state school where they will receive a subpar education while rich Eton snobs get handed an Oxbridge or Ivy League uni placement on a silver platter using daddy's money? Eton's private school tuition fees are 50k A YEAR!!! That's almost double the average salary here in Scotland. We used to have the best education system in the world, at a minimum you would receive a tertiary education for trades and even that's gone. Working-class kids are being demonstrably failed and that will bite our government in the ass once they realize that they are the future workers, only to find they don't have the skills needed to replace the retirees. Gen Alpha is going to be in poverty, hopelessly addicted to the internet, and the dumbest generation to date.