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These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
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Ms. Britton, a health-care specialist, and Mr. Britton, a middle-school science teacher, live in Wesley Chapel, Fla.
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Another MP and former teacher, Paul Holmes, says that creating a large number of specialist schools will create much more tension in the process of allocating secondary school places.
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