Educate that Head !

That headmaster needs educating !
The whole point of grammar schools is that their educational opportunities are awarded competitively by testing and entirely on academic merit on a level playing field. The places are thereby awarded to those who can most benefit from them.
If places are instead allocated based on the interference of a typically loony and irrational socialist criterion based on social status rather than academic merit, the entire point of Grammar Schools will go down the pan.
Mere social poverty does not generate an ability to benefit from a Grammar School education, and there are clever and less-clever kids in both well-off and poorer social environments.
So, as usual, the inteference of socialist dogma would produce equality all right .... in a downward direction.

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