The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s

Re:The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s by DanBC on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @06:37AM (#8486733)

I'm not sure you can say that. And especially not of the schools of the 1970s and 1980s.

A lot of academically minded children would have been very poorly served by those schools. People getting to university would have been the children of upper and middle class parents who had money to afford private schooling or tuition or coaching to get into good grammar schools.

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Re:The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @07:10AM (#8486790)

I think they are using a recursive definition of "best" to mean those who succeed under the current system whereas the original question posted seems to be defining "best" as the misfits who fail in the current system despite (or indeed because of) their aptitude.

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