Educational policy- the comprehensive school system

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When was the comprehensive system first introduced?
1965
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What did the comprehensive system aim to overcome?
The class divide of the tripartite system and to make education more meritocratic
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How was the change made from the tripartite system to the comprehensive system?
The 11+ was abolished, along with grammars and secondary moderns and were replaced with comprehensive schools that all pupils within the area would attend
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Why does the grammar-secondary modern divide still exist today?
It was left to the local education authority to decide whether to 'go comprehensive' and not all chose to do so
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Why do functionalists argue that comprehensives promote social integration?
Because children of different social classes were brought together into one school
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How does Ford evaluate the functionalist view?
She found little social mixing between working-class and middle-class pupils, mainly because of streaming
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Why do functionalists see the comprehensive system as more meritocratic?
Because it gives pupils a longer period in which to develop and show their abilities rather than sitting an exam at age 11
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Why do Marxists believe that comprehensives reproduce class inequality?
Because children are still being labelled and there is a continuation of streaming. This therefore continues to deny working-class children equal opportunity
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How might comprehensive schools actually produce the 'myth of meritocracy'?
The comprehensive system legitimates class inequality by making unequal achievement seem fair, because failure looks like it is the fault of the individual rather than the system
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