Tories are attacking the disparity between rich and poor areas in the numbers of students who go on to study A Levels today.
It's a bit flawed and their response is a bit empty really: "Giving parents more control will help to improve opportunities for children, particularly those from deprived backgrounds" - erm, not really. The reality is kids in Knowsley and the West Midlands don't do A levels for all number of reasons, but probably not because their parents aren't involved in the running of the local school....
I could be really cruel and say that the Tories would never know this because none of them have come from poor areas......
BUT - I want to congratulate them on one thing. Every year we see a repeat of the same old tired formula - record results and the Tories criticise them and complain about falling standards, thus on what should be a day of joy for students and parents they bring clouds of doom - no clear winners with that strategy.
Instead Tories are trying this new attack line, which I think touches on a much more pertinent question and avoids running down the thousands of young people who slogged their guts out for months watching Wimbledon, sleeping in and doing six months of revision in the last two days. well, that's how I did my A levels....
SH
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