1. They breakdown social barriers. This is because they take students from a range of social class backgrounds. They also take students of all abilities and many have a healthy mix of ethnic minority students. In this way studnets learn to interact with people from a wide range of social backgrounds.
2. They prevent wasted talent. This is because comprehensive schools do not select students at an early age. Comprehensive schools allow students to develop at their own pace through mixed ability teaching.
Key Sociologist = Moon (1990) discovered that mixed ability teaching improved the educational performance of low ability students without affecting the high ability students.
3. They offer more equality of educational opportunity than the tripartite system. Unlike the tripartite system all students attend the same school and therefore broadly receive the same educational experience. For example, in terms of quality of teachers, facilities etc.
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