Originally Posted by
FunkyDexter
I did think the age discrimination laws Labour bought in a couple of terms ago were starting to push at the edge of reason (age is actually a pretty important consideration for an employer lookng for a long term member of staff who you're going to invest in training for) but they did still fall within the bounds of reason. I'm more bothered by Labours total aversion to education being based on competence. I actually think the old system of Grammars and Secondary Moderns had alot of merit but two major flaws: it was too difficult to move between the streams so the 11+ could damn you for life for one bad day and successive governments tended to throw money at the grammers at the expense of the Secondary Moderns. Streaming kids based on ability just seems like common sense to me if you want to get the best out of all of them.