Peter Hitchens documents how the Tories and Labour party worked together to destroy the publicly funded British grammar schools while maintaining their own elite status by placing their children in non-state funded schools and completely avoid the mess they created:Modern British socialists - and modern British Tories - openly and actively support a school system that ensures the children of the rich and influential are privileged, while the offspring of the poor and weak are deprived. Why? The evidence for all this is quite clear. The odd thing is that so few realise what it means. Since this is the system that we have, and since socialists do support it, and with some vigour, it is amazing that this question is not asked more often. All around us we see proof of it. We also have strong evidence that they know what they are doing. They pretend, when they must know they are fooling nobody, that they have not watered down the exam system to conceal the general drop in standards....(Read Full Post)