Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 It is precisely because they're *not* academically selective,but that they *are* selective, that I mention it. Abolition of academic selection led to far more unfair forms of selection. How I long for a reviewer who grasps what it is that I am on about. .@friel_raymond — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Not academically selective in the sense you’re talking about.

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 I remain *astonished* by this response from @friel_raymond, who reviewed my grammar school book for @The_Tablet, to my point that the RC schools he has taught in and run are themselves selective. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Not academically selective in the sense you’re talking about.

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Here again, .@raymond_friel astounds. He has bene teaching in RC schools, says they can be good, but appears to think they are non-selective. My point is that all good schools are *selective* - not (alas) that they are acaemically selective. If only. — PolitiTweet.org

This is one of the problems of your book @ClarkeMicah when you argue that only selective schools had/have any chanc… https://t.co/IfKRSR0Tea

Posted Dec. 27, 2022