State education has been dysfunctional since the privatization of exam boards and publication of league tables, the perfect recipe for composting the entire system. Not to say that it was ever brilliant other than in parts.
20 years ago a sixth form college local to me was restricting students' entry and/or their exam entries purely to boost its scores. It's analogous to police forces not recording unsolvable crimes to get their detection rates up.
The plan will cost a fortune one way or another and won't work. It should be way down any list of priorities.
To the extent that private schools provide a better all round education than state ones, the resources should be going into making the state schools do more of what the better private ones can do. Fix the state schools first and maybe the problem will be ameliorated.
Last edited by: Manatee on Mon 23 Sep 19 at 08:29
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