Why UKIP champions grammar schools

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage explains why UKIP is the only party to champion grammar schools

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[FredrickDeSherlock]

I love UKIP, it represents everything that I believe in, we can make Britain strong again, vote Nigel and it may take a while, but we'll see the good times come again

[Mrlaissezfaire90]

@kcirdrab As a UKIPer and someone who enjoys Germany, I would agree with you. They teach economics and money management in German schools, and many European countries teach a second language from a very early age. Both of these things are aspects of education most of our schools have neglected. I think learning French/German/Spanish from an early age and learning how an economy runs would make our kids less insular, and would be beneficial in the long term.

[ampersandtay]

@SkullOfYorick Thanks, I'll see what I can find on the subject

[SkullOfYorick]

@ampersandtay Between the early 1960s and the late 1990s, the Labour Party was taken over by adherents to the Frankfurt school of cultural Marxism (if you do not know much about this school of philosophy, I highly recommend reading about it, as it is explains every thing from high taxation to sex-education). Comprehensive education was seen as a method of indoctrination to replace the academic rigour of traditional education based on an accepted canon of facts.

[ampersandtay]

Aren't Grammar Schools on the same principal us Russian Socialists used in the cold war? Lifting bright children out of ordinary schools and putting them in special schools for the brighter pupils.

Why is Labour so against this?

[adswu2008]

If you want to know what grammer shcools do or general education does .. Just Visit Thailand ( They cant add 2+2 or speak English and as for abilty to manage a company its ZERO ) then support this party

[TheStephmcw]

Of course it makes sense to give bright children from poorer backgrounds the best chance but we also need to provide high quality education for other sectors of the workforce. We do still have a manufacturing base and we also need skilled people for construction, hospitality, driving, agriculture etc. I firmly believe that everybody is good at something and I believe UKIP policy is to provide technical and specialist schools to address this.

[kcirdrab]

@Cockwallet how will u select without an 11+ (or version of it), & what's to be done with the 80% that fails it?

Regressing back to a system that essentiially ditches the 80% is highly regressive & a vote killer

The principle behind grammars is that a small minority r provided with v. good resources whilst the majority r ditched in sub-standard non-academic institutions, this had some relevance to England's economy in the 1950s, now it would societally a highly damaging throwback

[Cockwallet]

@kcirdrab

i dont see anyone specifically campaigning to bring back 11+ or teach industrial manufacturing jobs to kids who dont get into grammar schools

it's the principle of academic selection

[kcirdrab]

@Mrlaissezfaire90 agreed

[kcirdrab]

@Cockwallet Yes, & unfortnately the 11+ sustem consigned those who don't excel academically to a patronising 3rd rate scrap heap, being taught labour skills that no longer have any relevance to England's economy now its manufacturing base has gone.

A system designed for 20% leaving the other 80% to rot is not what England needs in the 21st Century