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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've come to the point of view that this is one area where the UK gets it right: it isn't about the little tests, homework grades, attendance and participation grades along the way. What matters is mastery at the end of the line. (Though I disagree with their urge to specialize too soon and at the expense of a broader education in the more mature academic years).[/quote]

Except wealthy parents in London (and abroad) hire a tutor to prep their kids for the 7+ and 8+ exams at Westminster Under or St. Paul's Juniors, which feed almost automatically into Westminster and St. Paul's, which take the same A-levels as the rest of the country except all their students get A and A* and 50% get Oxbridge offers. Or the parents pay 35,000 pounds a year for a prep school that prepares for Common Entrance and where the headmaster has connections at Eton, Winchester, and Westminster, and then the kid goes to those schools at 13+ and then goes to Oxbridge.

Or then there's the 11+, where parents prep their kids or hire tutors to get their kids into grammar schools instead of comprehensives, so they get better A-level results, so they get into Oxbridge.

It's the same situation all over the world. French parents pay for tutors to get their kids into Lycee Louis Le Grand or Henri IV. Germany has huge socioeconomic gaps between who gets into the Gymnasium track and who is in Hauptschule (hint: Turkish immigrants and poor kids) after 4th grade. Chinese parents beg, borrow, and steal to get their kids into middle schools and then high schools that have the best gaokao results. This is a human problem, not an FCPS or TJ problem.[/quote]

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