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IT WOULD appear that the Local Education Authority (LEA) cannot give assurances that those pupils who attain the standard required for a grammar school place will obtain an education within a grammar school.

The newly appointed 'all ability' schools will accommodate excess children who attain the standard, but cannot be placed within a Grammar School.

However, there has been no move by the LEA to allocate extra funds to the 'all ability' schools so that they can expand their curriculum base and truly offer an alternative to the grammar schools. This only goes to prove the inequalities of the 11-plus system to the majority of children who do not attain a grammar school place.

I feel these changes are an ideal opportunity to up-grade the 'all ability' schools, granting them the power to offer an absolutely comprehensive curriculum and at the same time reducing parental anxiety.

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