Sacked former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been Theresa May’s fiercest Tory critic on grammar schools. All eyes on her in the Commons this afternoon after she blasted the PM:
“I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform. The evidence is now incontrovertibly clear that a rigorous academic education does not need to be the preserve of the few.”
Just how concerned is NiMo about a good education not being “the preserve of the few“? In 2014 Guido revealed she had looked round Fairfield, a posh boys’ prep school, for her son. And earlier this year she admitted she was considering sending her son to a private secondary school. When Morgan heard that her local paper was about to print the story, her aide threatened to pull her weekly column. Her views on local issues have since remained the “preserve of the few”…
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