One of our grandson’s school friends had to leave school when his parents moved to another part of the country for work-related reasons. The school friend was home schooled for a couple of years before returning to grandson’s school when his parents moved back.
Grandson said that when his friend came back to school, he was at least a year ahead of everyone else in the class. He works hard anyway, but normally there is no opportunity to forge ahead, not to the extent he achieved at home.
Merely an anecdote, but interesting I thought.
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I still contend that Grammar Schools (both me and Mrs DiscoveredJoys went to them) are a tried and tested way of producing educated people and are one way of increasing social mobility.
And *still* the Powers That Be choose to ignore the evidence, or provide a respectable alternative. I've come to believe it is another example of classism. Both from those who already bask in their family history and those who pull the ladder up behind them.
That's probably the reason why homeschooling is so heavily discouraged
DJ - I agree, Mrs H and I both went to Grammar Schools, but later came a fairly blatant political intention to pull the ladder up. It will be interesting to see how home schooling develops in the age of remote teaching and AI though.
Bucko - it seems to be. The upper echelons have always seemed uneasy about genuine social mobility gained via education.
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