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Dawn Purvis education report
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Any disadvantaged area is better off without an 11 plus exams.
I couldn't disagree more with this. I went to primary school in a really deprived area, a dead end type of place. The 11 plus and the ability to go on to a good education was the one thing that lifted a lot of people out of a miserable deprived lifestyle in a miserable deprived area.
There were those left behind, of course, but the reality was that even at 11 years of age, these people didn't want to achieve, and they resented others doing so, hence were disruptive in class and violent out of it. I don't believe that abolishing the 11 plus will suddenly change the mindset of people like this, but it will deprive a significant number of pupils of the chance to escape this environment.0
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