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State Provided funding for these extra places
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Manchester Grammar School given State Funding
So that 1200 of their places went to talented scholarship students. -
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History of the Grammar School
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Entry to Grammar School depended on passing a Scholarship Exam
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Smartest Students were automatically sent into top streams
If you showed promise in Science - you went to the top stream.
If you showed promise in Latin - again you went to the top stream. -
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Teachers supported students in achieving their goals
Many helped not only academically but in some cases materially -
Grammar Schools had high levels of equality
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Many students left Grammar School at 14
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Education Act
Wanted technology schools - didn't come through, hence why secondary modern schools became more popular -
The equality line started to show
Bernsteins Language Code started to show -
Rebellious Teenage Nature Threatened Grammar Schools
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Over half of Oxbridge places when to Grammar School Students
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Many Working Class Students could not afford Sixth Form
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Grammar Schools revitalised post-war education
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Passing 11+ became far more important
Didn't want the embarrasment of going to a "second class" school. -
Labour forced Grammars to become Comprehensive