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Article: My grammar school helped me to shine; LETTERS SPECIAL.(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2007
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MY STORY illustrates why so many people are furious about the withdrawal of support for grammar schools. My father worked in an iron foundry for more than 40 years while my mother was a part-time nurse. We lived in a council house and my parents always voted for the Labour Party.
In 1959, about ten of us at the local primary school passed the 11-Plus and went to grammar school. We all lived on the same council estate.
I wasn't the sharpest knife in the box, but the grammar school squeezed eight O-levels and four A-levels out of me, and I captained the first XI at football. The school was all about excellence.
When I retired from work in 2001, I ...