Marmite is like tripe, not in taste of course, but in the fact that it's consumed by animals and poor people.

LOL J/K

Let's talk about academic selection. I'm in favour of introducing more grammar schools. Contrary to popular belief, grammar schools increase social mobility instead of decrease it. Academic selection is unfair and illegal? Only the latter is true. Even in a grammar school, students are divided up into sets according to ability because that is the best way to learn. If the class is of mixed ability then the less intelligent students could slow down the learning pace and not allow the teacher to expand into extra cirricular areas, similarly, less able students may try even less because they may feel demoralized by some people consistently out-performing them by such a long way.

Another argument is that house prices near good schools go up, and make them unaffordable for poor people so they can't send their kids there. Perhaps it's something to do with catchment areas being restricted and priority given to kids living nearer to the school. If you increase the catchment area, even children living in a shitty location can enter a grammar school if they study.

That's enough for now. I've always been better at responding to comments.