Grammar School Vacancies

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.

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Photo of Mrs Leah Manning Mrs Leah Manning , Epping 12:00, 8 December 1949

As the examination at 11 plus can never be a just criterion of a child's future development, is it not a very great waste to have empty places in this type of secondary school when there are children who are willing to enter and parents who are anxious that their children should enter?