How to find a Secondary Modern School in Today's Britain

The stupidest objection to restoring Grammar schools (and there is stiff competition for this title) is the argument that people who think they want Grammars back wouldn’t want to have Secondary Moderns back.

Secondary Moderns can’t ‘come back’ because they never went away. In fact there are more of them than there were before 1965, imposed on more poor people each year on ‘National Offer Day’, when the offspring of the poor and disadvantaged are crammed willy-nilly into bog-standard ‘Comprehensives’ .

 

Earlier today I placed on Twitter Hitchens’s guide on how to find a Secondary Modern school in Today’s Britain.

 

I repeat it here

 

Step One: Find an alleged ‘Comprehensive school’

Step Two: Locate a Labour or Tory politician living in catchment area of said ‘Comprehensive’.

Step Three: Show the school to the politician.

Step Four: Stand back as politician a) wangles child into covertly selective state school miles away or b) goes private.

You’ve identified the local Secondary Modern.

 

Never fails. If you can’t find a politician, almost any noisy media liberal will do.