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在教育方面梅超风最次要的变革就是要减少公立Gra妹妹ar school，她下台时分宣告的这个打算让得多middle class家庭快乐了一下子，她大选的走麦城致使不能不勾销了这个方案 GRAMMARS DITCHED Plans to expand gra妹妹ar schools shelved after being left out of Queen’s Speech, Education Secretary Justine Greening confirms https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3897083/plans-to-expand-gra妹妹ar-schools-shelved-after-being-left-out-of-queens-speech-education-secretary-justine-greening-confirms/，这阐明了一个问题，政治风向产生了变动，支持Gra妹妹ar school的权势取患了下风，那对英格兰现存的163所公立gra妹妹ar象征着甚么？
英格兰现存的163所公立gra妹妹ar可能需求变革来应答政治风向产生的变动，King Edward VI Aston School 曾经改动了录取政策，它留出25%的名额给享用pupil premium的先生（就是disadvantaged pupils ），享用pupil premium至关因而来自低支出家庭，目前公立gra妹妹ar的先生只要3%的先生free school meals。这个学校的政策就是增加了给其它先生的名额，这样middle class家庭的孩子考公立gra妹妹ar的难度就减少了。King Edward VI Aston School 说有可能当前会进步配额给pupil premium的先生，其它学校尚无消息，但若有的学校开始这样做，其它学校也有可能会这样做的。
What now for gra妹妹ar schools?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40384549
It was Theresa May’s controversial big idea, to open a wave of new gra妹妹ar schools in England.
It dramatically restarted a row over academic selection at the age of 十一 which for almost 20 years had been quietly sidelined.
The speech defining her vision of a “great meritocracy” was just last September, but those plans have been shredded by the election.
So what has changed for England’s 163 gra妹妹ar schools and the many non-selective schools affected by them?
On the surface apparently nothing, beneath that almost everything.
Or, as one gra妹妹ar school leader said to me “politically, gra妹妹ar schools are now an issue in a way they weren’t. The 1997 ban on new selective schools brought a truce. David Cameron respected that truce.”
The school of Theresa May’s former chief of staff, Nick Timothy, has a special place in this story.
King Edward VI Aston School looks like a bastion of tradition, but it’s taken a radical step to become more inclusive.
At Aston a quota system has been introduced to set aside 25% of places for pupil premium children who had passed the entrance test.
This means their family income will have been low enough at some point in the last six years to entitle them to free school meals.
Similar quota systems were widely expected to be part of any plans for new gra妹妹ar schools, which overall have only 3% of pupils on free school meals.
There was even the possibility they might have been applied to existing gra妹妹ar schools.
Aston is part of a foundation that runs six of Birmingham’s gra妹妹ar schools.
Executive director Heath Monk thinks the ditched plans, guided by May’s chief of staff, might have been more surprising than many realised.
“Nick Timothy was unique in seeing the expansion of gra妹妹ar schools, and making them more inclusive, as part of the same agenda.”
Gra妹妹ar schools, quietly tolerated for years, found themselves in the spotlight.
A question of inclusivity
Our BBC investigation of admission policies showed fewer than half gave priority to poorer children when allocating places.
This included some schools with poor neighbourhoods on their doorstep.
A new law might have compelled gra妹妹ar schools to change, but without that what will happen to efforts to make them socially inclusive?
At the King Edward VI gra妹妹ar schools Mr Monk says they hope to go significantly further than the current 20-25% quotas.
The risk of slightly lower exam results down the road is one they can take as the foundation runs most of the gra妹妹ar schools in Birmingham.
Secondary moderns revisited
About 5% of England’s secondary school pupils are educated in a gra妹妹ar school.
The influence of selection is greater, because gra妹妹ar schools only give places to about a quarter of the children in their areas.
The other local schools accept children who don’t reach the score needed, don’t sit the test or have special needs.
“We’ll be back to the bad old days, where people didn’t recognise we still had gra妹妹ars and secondary moderns,” Ian Widdows tells me.
He’s the head teacher at Giles Academy in Boston Lincolnshire, which he is proud to call a secondary modern.
He set up the National Secondary Moderns Association to gain recognition that they do a good job for the pupils they have.
This matters, says Mr Widdows, because the system that judges how schools are performing uses GCSE results as a key measure.
“It’s based on a misguided assumption that we have a comprehensive system,” he says.
But there is now a new performance measure, of the progress made by pupils, which should make the system fairer.
There are 163 gra妹妹ar schools in England, but just 213 schools classed as “non-selective schools in highly selective areas”, which are effectively secondary moderns.
Many more do not wish labelled as such, perhaps fearing some kind of stigma.
But Ian Widdows believes the true number of secondary moderns is closer to 600.
There is just one recent example of a new gra妹妹ar school site opening.
In Sevenoaks this September the first pupils will arrive at what is officially an annexe of the Weald of Kent gra妹妹ar school more than 10 miles away.
Threatened legal challenges have been dropped, but the new site will be closely watched by anti-selection campaigners.
It will have to prove it is truly operating as part of the existing gra妹妹ar school.
Such is the legal complexity that few believe there will be more gra妹妹ar annexes of this kind in the near future.
That does not mean the number of gra妹妹ar school places will not go up.
None of the £50m promised by Theresa May for expansion appears to have been allocated, and it’s not clear if its still available.
But in counties such as Gloucestershire gra妹妹ar schools have simply expanded on their existing sites, to the consternation of other secondary head teachers who face losing pupils and money.
There’s a simple reason why some gra妹妹ar schools are adding a form of entry, as each pupil brings funding.
“A significant number of gra妹妹ar schools are looking at a very bleak financial future,” says Charlotte Martens, vice-chairman of the Gra妹妹ar School Heads Association.
This is partly an accident of geography, as many gra妹妹ar schools are in lower funded areas.
The low number of pupil premium pupils they admit also means less money.
Change to survive
As head teacher of Rugby High School, Charlotte Martens has decided to join forces with a nearby non-selective academy to form one organisation running both schools.
In the last budget Philip Ha妹妹ond promised to extend free school transport to up to 15 miles for poorer pupils attending a gra妹妹ar school.
It’s a promise she hopes they keep as it would allow her school to extend its catchment for children from low income families to Nuneaton or Hinckley.
That would make the school more inclusive and bring in more money.
Ms Martens also thinks the debate has shifted significantly after the last year.
“It’s opened up some wounds which go back a long way, everybody feels slightly shakier,” she said.
Privately many argue that canny gra妹妹ar schools will have to keep on changing to survive.
Politics is in a more febrile and unpredictable state than for a generation.
The truce, now broken, means it’s not impossible that calls for the abolition of existing schools could reappear from the left.
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所以说在英国工薪阶层领child tax credit福利是硬情理。 不在于钱多钱少，和iPhone 同样是social status symbol
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假如到时分没钱送孩子上私立，只能本人下工夫，帮孩子学习，补课了。
公立学校环境相对于杂，也能熬炼孩子和各色人打叫道的才能
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耽心政府对现有的gra妹妹ar school的投入和反对更少。
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孩子考学前一年，两口子不下班在家歇一年，没支出算是低支出家庭吗？
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也就是说，为了让孩子上gra妹妹ar school, 不能不争夺去拿福利了。。。是需求集体年支出低于十一000? 这个支出也彻底不是区别中产的规范啊。
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成龙大哥，时间过得好快啊！我基本不知道十一+是甚么货色就好像昨天的事同样，再过一年儿子就要考了。曾经给他预约了tutor，9月份开始。但愿他上中学前，政策别再有大变动了！
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哎 ╮(╯▽╰)╭
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我小孩4岁，你们的话题我表现看不懂
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这就更为坚决了中产们送私校的信心……顺便说句，你这个中产的概念怎么定义？我以为中产和工薪阶层要区分开来，不是说有个任务就算中产的…
working class = 不下班就没饭吃
middle class = 有property，不下班也能吃饭
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前两天我还在问成龙大哥对于gra妹妹ar school的竞争力问题，这么一来更难了。:’(:’(
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