Gavin Mackintosh-
Theresa May has launched a scathing attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over the grammar school dispute.
The prime minister attacked Mr Corbyn for his hypocritical criticism against Mrs May’s grammar school funding package, which he called a “vanity project”, whilst funding for other schools are cut. Theresa May highlighted the fact that the Labour leader and his son both attended grammar schools.
”He sent his son to a grammar school, he himself went to a grammar school”, she said. It must have been an embarrassing blow for Corbyn who was reportedly against his son attending a grammar school, so much that it broke up his marriage with his wife in the 1990’s. His ex-wife Claudia was insistent that their child should not attend a local Islington comprehensive school. Corbyn disagreed, and instead of a mature and amicable conclusion resulting from their disagreement, a divorce was the ludicrous outcome of their disagreement. How ridiculous it is, that a marriage would break up over something like that.
A fair verdict has to be that Corbyn was wrong and stubborn, not to back down if he stuck to his guns until their marriage broke down. The school a child attends is not important enough to break down a marriage.
BETRAYAL
Corbyn had claimed that the prime minister was “betraying a generation of young people by cutting the funding for every child” with a new funding formula for schools in England.
“Children will have fewer teachers, larger classes, fewer subjects to choose from and all the Prime Minister can do is focus on her grammar school vanity project that can only ever benefit a few children.” Corbyn criticised the government’s claim to having no money for schools, yet was able to produce £320m for Ms May’s vanity project.
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Corbyn suffered a knockout blow there because as a grammar school former pupil, he must first openly rubbish the value of grammar schools before undermining a recommendation for its wider spread and availability in the UK. Grammar schools are known to be of a higher standard than most public schools in Britain, although good public schools exist. A huge injection of money to improve and expand grammar schools should not be criticised or played down, but rather should be supported. Most children who attend grammar schools come out well in life in comparison to those who don’t.
Public schools cannot be allowed to rot whilst grammar schools flourish, given the known fact that not everybody can attend a grammar school. Some children need gradual, close and sustained attention from teachers and supervisors to develop necessary academic strengths, but those serious enough to get into a grammar school should not be short of financial support or availability of grammar schools that meet the academic atmosphere suitable for the children. May has said that the funding for grammar schools is not yet final, but still at a consultation stage.
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