Mr Burke said the recent article in the Belfast Telegraph about Campbell College’s new principal and his defence of the grammar school system “choice is key”, raises an important question about the existence and future of Northern Ireland’s grammar school system. For decades defenders of academic selection have framed grammar schools as a matter of parental choice, a supposed luxury of diversity that encourages aspiration and rewards hard work hard. These arguments are nothing new, and they obscure a much harsher truth.
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