London Oratory was a grammar school until the 1970s and only ended selection interviews in 2006.
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Consider if these pupils moved the other way from comprehensives to a grammar school.
An annex of a grammar school elsewhere in Kent could open, effectively creating a new school for the area.
Mother-of-three Emily Shepherd, from Kingsdown, near Dover, has two children at a grammar school with another due to start in 2012.
Sevenoaks is the only part of Kent without a grammar school, resulting in over 1, 100 pupils travelling 15 miles to Tunbridge Wells.
This means a special school for children with learning difficulties can be compared with a grammar school that selects children by academic ability.
However, consider what already happens at popular comprehensives, and would be likely to happen if a grammar school had to drop its entrance exam.
The report's authors claim this is a false analogy, arguing that many working class children don't have a realistic choice of benefitting from a grammar school education.
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These include such things as the practice in some non-selective schools of not considering an application if the parents had also put a grammar school as one of their choices.
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One teacher from a grammar school who contacted the BBC News website said he spent some time looking at "appallingly badly written personal statements with stupefyingly banal references to jobs in fish and chip shops or restaurants".
The setting is Yorkshire in the nineteen-eighties a grammar school at which a group of eight boys, seven of them very bright, are being prepped for mind-crushing exams that could lead to a place to read history at Oxford or Cambridge.
It is ridiculous that a person's entire life is determined by how well they did in an exam at the age of 11, as it is a fact of life that by and large, most people who get to university, for example, went to a grammar school first.
But parents would prefer a community grammar school that serves local kids who have passed a floor standard in the entrance tests.
The women are of the era when the only serious career offering was a husband and children, and in the novel all of them marry, except for a grammar-school teacher who is unable to find the right man and another woman who ends up a bit of a floozy.
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The prospect of a new grammar school is likely to unsettle the coalition.
Harriet Harman, who was Mr Blair's first social-security secretary, outraged her colleagues by sending her son to a selective grammar school.
By the 1997 election, though, enthusiasm for selection had hardened into a Conservative pledge to provide a "grammar school in every town".
Now a group of parents in Sevenoaks has collected 2, 200 signatures, forcing Kent County Council to take seriously their campaign for a new grammar school.
Twelve members of the present cabinet benefited from a grammar-school education.
"We said back in March 2012, that we were determined to provide young people in Sevenoaks with access to a local grammar school, within current legislation, " said KCC leader Paul Carter.
DUP's education spokesman and a former grammar-school teacher, admits that this has muddied the case for hanging on to selection, as many unionists prefer.
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The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl's grammar school in Essex, England.
He won a scholarship to Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School, and became a teacher in London before joining the Welch Regiment when World War II broke out.
Although he feels that if Ripon's education system were being designed from scratch today, then a comprehensive school might well be a viable option, for him the Grammar School should remain as it is.
Mr Wardrop, a former pupil of Aberdeen Grammar School, had left Scotland during the 19th century to start a new life in Australia.
But the expedition was criticised by Mr Smith, who is also a governor at Skegness Grammar School.
Kent County Council is considering setting up a "new" grammar school in Kent, the first for 50 years.
There is a significant demand for grammar school places in West Kent.
In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.
Overall some 44% of those on the list went to independent school, 27% to grammar school, 8% to a former direct grant school and 21% to comprehensives and other state schools.
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