Talk:Partially selective school (England)

message: I'm wondering if Northampton School for Boys belongs on this list. A former grammar, its own article says "The school now uses 3 criteria to admit pupils: a sibling link, an aptitude for music or technology, and finally a fair allocation system using banding to create an equal spread of abilities. The sixth form is open to students from all schools and has an admissions number for external students of 60. Places are allocated by sitting a test, the top 60 being admitted.". Tom walker (talk) 10:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The school selects 10% of its intake for aptitude in music or technology.  Selection limited to 10% for aptitude in certain subjects was permitted under the rules for specialist schools, rather than the broader exemption for pre-1997 partial selection in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.  The number of schools using the specialist schools provision is much larger, and I would say they don't fit here.  I think that selection at entry to the sixth form, which is permitted to all schools, is also out of scope.  Kanguole 11:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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message: This article refers to general criticisms of selective schools, and to the disappointment felt by local parents whose children are not admitted.  I felt it was a bit unbalanced in the way that it was presented.  It seems to me that the opposite view is at least as sympathetic:
In the current system, on the one hand, we have some high-performing students who are admitted to a high-performing school, regardless of whether their family can afford to live near the school.  On the other hand, we have some families that paid a lot of money to live near that school, and are unhappy because they felt like they bought that their children's admission to that high-performing school fair and square when they paid an inflated price for their terraced house a few blocks away from the school.
Surely a school's admissions office should not automatically be faulted for caring about whether the student is a good fit for the school, rather than focusing solely on the student's address (and thus, inevitably, on the family's socioeconomic advantages, as housing near high-performing schools is never as cheap as housing near low-performing schools)?  
I think this article might be more balanced if it somehow acknowledged that for every family that is stung by rejection, there is another family that is pleased to have been accepted.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:58, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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