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Only a few grammar schools still survive now in the UK.
Nigel Farage wants to see more grammar schools reinstated, as they give an opportunity to children from non wealthy backgrounds (whose parents can't afford to send their children to an elite independent public school,) to maximise their academic potential.
It's sad to see that many traditional grammar secondary school have been closed down. The UK gives Ł1 billion every month to fund poor EU states... when that money should be used to save our grammar schools, improve our NHS, and create a government and parliament for England (the only nation in the UK without its own autonomous government, First Minister, and parliament.)
Grammar schools have been around since medieval times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school
My sister passed her 11+ exams at her junior school and academically earned her place into a grammar secondary/senior school for intelligent children.
She learnt both Latin and German in her grammar school (Bournemouth School For Girls on the coast of south-west England.) She also stayed on in her secondary grammar school until 18 to study her A-Levels.
Bournemouth School for Girls is one of the few surviving grammar schools in the UK. http://bsg.bournemouth.sch.uk
More recently, a number of state grammar schools still retaining their selective intake gained academy status, meaning that they are independent of the Local Education Authority (LEA).
Some parts of England retain forms of the Tripartite System, and a few grammar schools survive in otherwise comprehensive areas. Some of the remaining grammar schools can trace their histories to before the 16th century.
Unlike public schools (which only extremely wealthy people can afford to send their children, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public...nited_Kingdom) grammar schools are free if children can academically pass their 11+ exams at age eleven.
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