I spent a professional lifetime working in public schools – not Eton or Harrow, but schools in the public rather than private sector.
I am committed to comprehensive education for many reasons, among them the appalling waste of human potential which I remember only too well from the selective system when I was at school myself.
I have also seen, especially in Edinburgh, where I spent most of my career and as socially divided a city as there is in these islands, the effects of schools, whether in the old selective system or the continuing private sector, which reinforce existing privilege.
I happily sent my own children to our local comprehensive – and they were superbly well served.
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