Faced with a deluge of evidence that months of lockdown, patchy school attendance and a digital divide had widened attainment gaps between better and worse-off pupils, the 163 English grammars put their heads down, ploughed on, and managed to run just about the only examinations that took place last year.
Well, hurrah! Something more to celebrate, surely?
Well, no. Not according to Fiona. This is the 'Guardian', after all...
Does anyone in government care? It seems not, and this is hardly a topic likely to fire up the prime minister, whose nauseating observation about IQ testing was to suggest that humans were innately of unequal ability, and like cornflakes in a cereal box. “The harder you shake the pack, the easier it will be for some cornflakes to get to the top,” he explained in the 2013 Margaret Thatcher lecture, which is certainly an interesting take on the concept of “levelling up”.
Does Fiona believe we are all born equally able, then?
The 163 grammar schools may seem like small beer at the time of a national emergency, but for every selective school there is a larger local group of secondary moderns, a school type no one is campaigning to bring back.
They might not be, but is the answer really the wrong one? Only if you think that the key to the 'equality' you supposedly seek is to ensure no-one has the provable chance to better themselves...
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