The thing I struggle to articulate about grammar schools sometimes is the fact that if you’re involved enough in your kids’ education to get them into a grammar school, your kids would be fine in pretty much any schools https://twitter.com/torstenbell/status/1254345356969680898

The social mobility argument is harder to kill because it’s phrased as about the greater good (even though the data shows this isn’t true). At its best, it’s circular: if grammar schools didn’t exist, poor kids wouldn’t need to use grammar as a route to social mobility.

But most parents who make arguments about the importance of grammar schools care about *their* kids and their education and progress. And honestly, your kids will be fine.

(I went to a comp in a place that still has an eleven-plus and plenty of local grammar schools skimming off all the middle class kids with aspiration system. It’s a terrible system! And I turned out fine because we had books in the house and I was a nerd.)

(I was going to say “because my parents made me do my homework” to bring this thread full circle but that would be a total lie, my parents let us get on with it, I did the homework I thought was worth it and scribbled the rest in breaktime because I *was* a nerd, but also lazy)